@wizard
In summary: I installed Friendly Bionic(32) to a 16G thumb-drive.
Shutdown & second boot ended with an unexpected result.
I suspect the installation tool is incompatible with a more recent Puppy. See end of this report.
(A) The installation process.
a.1 Installation was done using uPupBB32, thumb-drive and an I3 box.
a.2 Location of *.iso file: https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=5188
a.3 Installation tool: Applications -> setup -> Puppy Installer (lightning bolt)
a.4 The installation ran as expected, no glitches with a green message-box that essentially said "all OK".
(B) The bug-a-boo.
b.1 Thumb-drive transferred to ASUS Eee netbook and booted. Operated as expected.
connected to NBN (ie the 'www') and so on.
b.2 shut-down, ran thru the normal process of making a pup-save file.
b.3 The first problem: offered to write the save file to sdb1 - a small (probably 800MiB partition (FAT32) used as the 'boot' partition. I would have preferred to put the save file on the HDD - sda2, but it didn't go there. i.e. /mnt/sda2/save
b.4 Instead, Puppy wrote the save file as sdb1/sda2/save/upupBBsave.3fs OK. No damage.
The Atom is a new installation. I expect the only info in the save file was initial config - language, time zone, country, and so on.
b.5 I moved the save file 'up' to sdb1/pupsave and rebooted. I didn't shut down and then turn the power on. I just clicked the green 'reboot' button. (Just to make that clear).
So - after the Atom shut-down, and before re-boot began pupsave was in sdb1/uPupBBsave.3fs. Next - this is the interesting part.
b.6 On re-booting, Friendly Puppy found the save file and declared it to be 'old'.
Apparently there is a newer form of save-file - something like 'Woof'. The newer Woof isn't compatible with pupsave (I was warned) but the OS allowed me to try a conversion. And I did!
b.7 The result: "performing a 'switch-root' and then! Kernel Panic. Who is this Colonel Panic? I got a series of messages - dump stack - panic - do_exit ....
Then - the black screen of 'death'!
What else should I add to complete this report?
Well, for the moment: Distro is Bionic Pup32 19.03.
OK - I'm about to reboot, this time with the option 'no-pupsave' What will happen? Will the world end? ... No - just a normal 'first time' boot.
Puppy wants to know what language I speak and my time zone etc.
My guess: The "lightning bolt" installer/app has some incompatibility with Friendly Bionic.
This is the first time (ever) when I installed Puppy using the lightning bolt to install Puppy Linux to a thumb-drive.
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