Booting SD card from Grub on Asus Eee PC900
Booting SD card from Grub on Asus Eee PC900
We have Puppy Linux 4.2.1 on the SD card, XP on the SSD drive and a small 30 MB Grub partition on the SSD drive. XP boots from the Grub menu but Puppy doesn't. Puppy boots as a flash drive if it is first in the BIOS but we want both Puppy and XP to boot from the Grub menu. Any help including clear step by step instructions on this is appreciated. Thanks, Joel
Try GAG boot manager
Try GAG (GNU software).
I was tired triying to make GRUB alone to work in an old PII with two disks, disk1=Win98, disk2=Puppy4.2.
Finally, I was lucky adding GAG to the recipe:
I was installed GRUB in /boot of disk2, then booted from a Win98 CD,
and restore MBR of disk1 with fdisk /mbr.
Then, boot from a GAG CD and install GAG in MBR of disk1.
Then configure GAG and everithing works fine!
I was tired triying to make GRUB alone to work in an old PII with two disks, disk1=Win98, disk2=Puppy4.2.
Finally, I was lucky adding GAG to the recipe:
I was installed GRUB in /boot of disk2, then booted from a Win98 CD,
and restore MBR of disk1 with fdisk /mbr.
Then, boot from a GAG CD and install GAG in MBR of disk1.
Then configure GAG and everithing works fine!
RE: Booting SD card from Grub on Asus Eee PC900
Thanks. I downloaded GAG and tried it but it apparently doesn't have the capability to boot an SD card from the Grub menu. Also there was no mention of booting an SD card in the instructions or FAQ's.
Following is the error message when booting the SD card from Grub:
root (hd1,1)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb2 ro vga=normal
Error 15: File not found
Puppy normally boots an SD card using pmedia=flash which is different from the way it boots a partition on the hard drive. It looks like we need to get the flash boot code into Grub so that when we select Puppy Linux 4.2.1 on the Grub menu, it boots the SD card.
Following is the error message when booting the SD card from Grub:
root (hd1,1)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb2 ro vga=normal
Error 15: File not found
Puppy normally boots an SD card using pmedia=flash which is different from the way it boots a partition on the hard drive. It looks like we need to get the flash boot code into Grub so that when we select Puppy Linux 4.2.1 on the Grub menu, it boots the SD card.
I don't have a eee-pc, but this site seems to have a grub
boot method for that device. Near bottom-Alternateboot.
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:installpuppylinux
boot method for that device. Near bottom-Alternateboot.
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:installpuppylinux
Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram.
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Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
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RE: Booting SD card from Grub on Asus Eee PC900
Success! Puppy 4.2.1 was already installed on the SD card using the USB Flash option in the Universal Installer. All I had to do was modify /boot/grub/menu.lst in the Grub partition on the SSD drive graphically using the home directory as follows:
title Puppy Linux 4.2.1 (on /dev/sdb2)
root (hd1,1)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb2 ro vga=normal
initrd /initrd.gz
/boot
The biggest noticeable change was kernel /vmlinuz instead of kernel /boot/vmlinuz . This is big because we can buy 16 GB SD cards for less than $20 and greatly expand the capability of the netbook. The tip about where to get the wireless driver for Puppy 4.2.1 was helpful too.
Thanks again
title Puppy Linux 4.2.1 (on /dev/sdb2)
root (hd1,1)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb2 ro vga=normal
initrd /initrd.gz
/boot
The biggest noticeable change was kernel /vmlinuz instead of kernel /boot/vmlinuz . This is big because we can buy 16 GB SD cards for less than $20 and greatly expand the capability of the netbook. The tip about where to get the wireless driver for Puppy 4.2.1 was helpful too.
Thanks again