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Puppy 4.2.1 won't boot after hdd install
Posted: Wed 26 Jan 2011, 01:11
by micky9finger
Dell inspirion 3800; piii, 600mhz
320Mb Ram
Booted fine from CD: puppy 4.2.1; K2.6.25.16
Installed to HDD after going through GParted
Now won't boot from HDD or CD
Help!
Posted: Wed 26 Jan 2011, 01:24
by Diggs
Did you set your boot flag on the primary partition?
You should still be able to boot from the live CD. At the splash screen hit your F2 key and then type "puppy pfix=ram" (without the quotes). That will force Puppy to run in memory from just the CD.
boot flag
Posted: Wed 26 Jan 2011, 01:45
by micky9finger
Diggs
opps. didn't do boot flag I think.
But will not boot from live disk.
Don't get the "splash option. I have seen that during my adventures with puppy 5.3.
All I get is Bios boot and the line " f1 to try reboot and f2 for setup"
no luck. same with live cd
Posted: Wed 26 Jan 2011, 03:07
by rcrsn51
Is the boot priority set correctly in your BIOS? You want CD first and HDD second.