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I am trying to boot fossapup64 9.5 on Acer Aspire A315-21-43WX which is UEFI machine.

In order to make UEFI bootable USB Stick I copied vmlinuz, initrd.gz, puppy_fossapup64_9.5.sfs, zdrv_fossapup64_9.5.sfs to the root of USB.
I downloaded bootx64.efi and grub.cfg from https://helledussen.com/linux/files/UEF ... e_usb.html
I created EFI/boot folder and put bootx64.efi in it and grub.cfg at the root of USB as instructed on the above page.

Secure Boot is disabled.

I could boot from USB but the boot gets stuck at 'Waiting for modules to complete loading'.

I am a long time Linux User (since Ubuntu 5.04) and last time I used Puppy was version Puppy 4.0 in 2008.

PS: My grub.cfg
menuentry "PUPPY LINUX" {

linux /vmlinuz

initrd /initrd.gz

}

Does it need more options?

Kamalakar

As advised on this page https://helledussen.com/linux/files/UEF ... e_usb.html I had copied only vmlinuz, initrd.gz, puppy_fossapup64_9.5.sfs, zdrv_fossapup64_9.5.sfs to the root of USB.

I noticed that there are two more files with .sfs extension i.e. adrv_fossapup64_9.5.sfs and fdrv_fossapup64_9.5.sfs in the iso.

I copied them and rebooted by USB.

It is working fine. I got the Puppy Desktop.

I configured wlan0 and everything works fine.
I am posting this reply from Pale Moon Browser on Puppy Linux 9.5

Kamalakar

Looks like you have it! I think you could also "frugally" install this Fossapup64 to that usb drive, but totally not necessary.

The Fossapup64 9.5 iso has everything needed in it.
Needed bootloader and files are in the iso.
If you had just copied all files in the iso to the USB drive.
You would have everything needed.
Plus a much better setup grub.cfg, with better options for booting Fossapup, in the entries.
Also some added entries, for optional ways to boot, if normal boot does not work.