Sony Vaio slow start up {SOLVED}

[Andrew Lohmann]

Sony Vaio laptop PCG-7185M (originally Windows 7)
250G SSD,
Windows 10 (legacy boot) 22H2, 64 bit.
Mageia 9, 64 bit (but does not boot from the grub4dos menu.)
8G EXT4 partition with Frugal Installed, S15pup64 22.12 - which I run from the SSD not RAM.

Of the three Puppy Linuxes I tried, only S15pup would start up. But it is very slow to start hanging a long time at Kernel, and a long time at Swap. Is there a fix for this or a Puppy that will work better. When it does start up it runs at good speed, though there is no brightness control, so I guess there are a number of less than the best drivers being used.

Can you suggest either fixes or another Pup?

[hikohan]

Try Precise 32 bit Puppy Linux,
or earlier xPUD/Tiny Core Linux
may fit your Vaio.

[Wiz57]

In your menu.lst file for grub4dos, on the kernel line, at the end, add "edd=off" (without quotes of course) using your text editor. This should speed up the boot process, I know it did on my S15Pup32s (32 bit)!

[Andrew Lohmann]

That worked thanks. I added it to some extra text within 40_custom needed to boot this pup from Grub2.

Not that I particularly need puppy because the laptop now is very fast now that I am running Debian XFCE on it. But I wanted to get puppy running

[Andrew Lohmann]

It turned out that the fix did not work. The pup sometimes starts up quickly anyway.

A workaround is to hold a key down until done is displayed when it stops.