Afternoon, gang.
Had this referred to me over at Linux.org, where I'm in the process of advising a 'noob' with 'wee' issues:-
https://sites.google.com/rmprepusb.com/ ... orials/wee
Just thought some of you may perhaps find it useful!
Mike. 
"wee" grldr stuff.....useful info!
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Re: "wee" grldr stuff.....useful info!
Long time ago, I made an sd card bootable just by setting the boot flag with gparted and copying grldr to the booting partition. That just worked. The other day this method wouldn't work with a new usb pendrive and I tried the BootFlash utility in the menu. That worked and I see that wee and grldr is installed. I wonder now why my previous setup didn't work and why wee was necessary in this case (perhaps the card came with a "stage 1" bootloader pre-installed?).
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Re: "wee" grldr stuff.....useful info!
If you configure your boot according to the rules of the IBM-Intel-Microsoft Trinity: i.e from the partition boot sector, then wee is not needed. Grub4dosconfig could do it that way if you selected "show partitions". I do it manually though.
cat mbr.bin > /dev/sdX (no number)
./bootlace.com --floppy /dev/sdXY (with number --floppy actually means use PBS)
Mark partition as active.
Copy grldr and menu.lst.
It's advisable to use a version of Grub4DOS that is less than three years old, for other reasons...
Grub4DOS can boot puppy from the original exFAT partition that comes with flash devices from 64GB