Easy 4.2.7 can't find Easy sfs on SSD

[LoboGrande]

Been using Puppy Linux since 4.2.1 always with fairly old equipment, my current home machine is an '08-'09 Dell Tower server that's fairly powerful(3.33 ghz hexacore Xeon with 24gb of RAM) . Fairly certain, it uses Legacy bios. Currently running Fossa 9.5 on it an a 120gb SSD with a 2TB SATA drive with everthing from Precise on.

My SSD is currently formatted to ext. 3. Can I run Easy 4.2.7 from it? It appears under Grub as FatDog 64 after I expanded it on USB drive and copied it to the SSD. It starts but says it can't find Easy OS sfs even though it's in the folder....

[Airdale]

I can't imagine that it wouldn't work. But Barry would know best.

But you must be using the built in grub for dos installer to configure menu.1st (since you said it showed up as Fatdog).

I'd bet anything thats the problem. While that installer used to work fine I think as Easy has evolved it has been left behind.

If you edit menu.1st manually I think it will fire right up.

There is a sample of a grub4dos configuration around here somewhere. Ill see if I can find it.

[Airdale]

Got this to boot from internal drive using grub4dos with:

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title EasyOS 4.2 dunfell
  uuid 2cc6c518-d1b2-4866-90a5-bcb48a11f80d
  kernel /EasyOS-dunfell/vmlinuz wkg_dir=EasyOS-dunfell wkg_uuid=2cc6c518-d1b2-4866-90a5-bcb48a11f80d
  initrd /EasyOS-dunfell/initrd 

Here is an example!
I am using grub4dos with Easy on one of my old computers and pretty much copied the format of this entry. It works fine.

I think you just need to run blkid to find the uuid