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gabtech wrote:Hi wiak,

I did a frugal install of weedog slitaz on ext3 partition, but the boot process hangs as seen in the attached pic.

wiak wrote:The above announcement regarding WeeDogLinux SliTaz flavour will be the final announcement regarding new WeeDogLinux releases on this murga-forum. As you know WeeDogLinux has its own forum and, to avoid user confusion, all downloads should be retrieved from the official downloads there. I cannot guarantee the currency of any downloads of build scripts or isos retrieved from any other source, particularly since WeeDogLinux variants are under regular active development.

None of the current or planned WeeDogLinux variants are in any way derivatives of Puppy Linux. The WeeDogLinux build systems use no Puppy Linux code and relies on its own, unique, and entirely independent initrd/init overlayfs related code to provide its functionality, which includes what was its unique designed in ability to load either sfs files or uncompressed directories into the filesystem layers (via overlayfs). That WeeDogLinux initrd/init was created entirely from scratch, and from first principles (originally for my own further education) without any thought or attempt to mirror the approach of any other frugally installable distribution.

Furthermore, I have made it very clear for a long time that I was unhappy with the organisation of the Murga forum, particulaly in it, in my view, not being willing to provide proportional space/exposure to the now many alternative distros being developed by murga-forum members. Some of these non-puppy-derived distros have had their main feedback threads on this murga forum for six or seven years or more - perhaps that should never have happened, but people tend to develop what they wish.

Up until now I was happy to announce new WeeDogLinux releases since some murga forum members have in the past expressed interest during the early development days of FirstRib WeeDog last year. However, having made the break from the restrictive organisation of murga forum to its own WeeDogLinux forum it seems appropriate to complete that break.

I remain a murga forum member and contributor however, but if you wish to follow WeeDogLinux developments and to keep up to date with its releases, please from now on do so by visiting its official forum, which is at:

https://weedoglinux.rockedge.org

wiak

rockedge wrote:Hello gabtech!

I looked at your screenshot and I would recommend modifying the Grub4Dos entry from:

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title Linux wdog-slitaz (sda2/wdog-slitaz)
 uuid b5898352-8ccf-43da-bb5e-31d215700768
 kernel /wdog-slitaz/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 ro
 initrd /wdog-slitaz/initrd.xz

There is a syntax error on the boot menu configuration.

To ->

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title wdog-slitaz  (sda2/wdog-slitaz)
 uuid b5898352-8ccf-43da-bb5e-31d215700768
 kernel /wdog-slitaz/vmlinuz-linux  w_bootfrom=/mnt/sda2/wdog-slitaz
 initrd /wdog-slitaz/initrd.xz

Or ->

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title wdog-slitaz  (sda2/wdog-slitaz)
 uuid b5898352-8ccf-43da-bb5e-31d215700768
 kernel /wdog-slitaz/vmlinuz-linux net.ifnames=0 w_bootfrom=/mnt/sda2/wdog-slitaz
 initrd /wdog-slitaz/initrd.xz

net.ifnames=0 will insure the network cards and wifi numbering begins with eth0 and wlan0 and is optional.