Fossapup64_9.5 CD won't boot

[Clarity]

Since @Governor has stated his interest of

• Having a new unused NVME drive added to his PC

• knowledge of how to select that drive for booting

• desire to boot OSes and PUPs directly from this drive

I have a very simple solution. I promise no headaches.

@governor, PM me for something really simple is what you want.

[one]

Hi @geo_c,

I just wanted to answer your question why in your case the SSD is identified with sda1 and in his case with nvme0n1p1 ...

peace

[geo_c]

Hi @geo_c,

I just wanted to answer your question why in your case the SSD is identified with sda1 and in his case with nvme0n1p1 ...

peace

Yes much appreciated. It helps to know the difference, as I only started using SSD drives this year I wasn't aware of the different designs.

[Governor]

@geo_c

is this machine setup and capable of legacy boot, or is it UEFI?

My computer is a Lenovo laptop with UEFI/legacy boot. I can choose UEFI boot, or I can choose Legacy first, defaulting to UEFI if Legacy fails.

[geo_c]

@Governor

Based on the fact that you want to boot from your internal SSD drive, I've been thinking about that first.

If you formatted the SSD drive to ext4 using gparted, did you happen to re-write the partition table first? I'm wondering if grub4dos doesn't see a valid boot partition because of the format of the partition table.

I have two laptops with SSD drives. When I wiped windows and formatted the drives, I re-wrote the partition tables to 'ms-dos' format. I'm not sure if this would address the bootloader issue or not. You can't reformat that drive until you are first able to run a CD install or USB install, because right now the SSD install appears to be your only working copy.

If you don't have a bootloader on SSD and you are booting from the CD bootloader into a running puppy on the SSD drive, it should be possible to boot into the CD install, which is a working puppy. Why it's not giving you the option is still eluding me.

[Governor]

@Clarity

I decided against using personal messages. I turned that feature off. I would like transparency not secrecy, and I would like to see solutions posted to the forum so that all readers may benefit.

Cheers!

[Clarity]

No problem

[Jasper]

@Governor

As you have a NVMe device. Have you used this application to manage it?

https://github.com/linux-nvme/nvme-cli

Help page:
https://www.mankier.com/1/nvme#

[Governor]

@Governor

As you have a NVMe device. Have you used this application to manage it?

https://github.com/linux-nvme/nvme-cli

Help page:
https://www.mankier.com/1/nvme#

That looks very interesting, but beyond my grasp at this point. It says: "No packages published".