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williwaw wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2023 10:14 am

seeing as the iso is mounted to a loopback device, would something like pupsfs=loop0: be recognized by the init script? I tried a few different permutations.........

the virtual loop device is, well, a sort of device. Do they have partitions? the init seems to be looking for a partition.

I just did it with vanilladpup-9.3.29 using the Multi Installer and it boots correctly from the ISO.

In your situation, Vanillapup may have searched for the main SFS file and found it elsewhere before it looked inside the ISO.

Also, there were some earlier versions of woof-built Puppies that did NOT boot from their ISOs.

rcrsn51 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2023 11:06 am

In your situation, Vanillapup may have searched for the main SFS file and found it elsewhere before it looked inside the ISO.

quite possible

I just did it with vanilladpup-9.3.29 using the Multi Installer and it boots correctly from the ISO.

was able to duplicate. tx

williwaw wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2023 7:18 pm

I just did it with vanilladpup-9.3.29 using the Multi Installer and it boots correctly from the ISO.

was able to duplicate. tx

Excellent.

If you look at the GRUB menu, you will see that the only argument needed to locate the SFS files is "find_iso". This should work for all recent woof-built Puppies.

ISObooter uses the same technique.

@dimkr it was a clean frugal install, but I wrote this in a wrong topic because I believe it was with a VanillaPup64 10.xx. Sorry for that; I can not even be certain which version it was.