In reading the posts in this thread, I think there is some confusion. I believe the confusion is because some people may be trying it on XP.HairyWill wrote:Hi pmshah,
I'm booting 2.14 this way, what error are you getting.
The problem with XP and the How To is that XP is likely to be an NTFS partition, if so, it can't be booted in a REAL DOS mode.
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Over a year ago someone, (maybe Mark or Nathan, I don't remember) posted an excellent how to boot Puppy in XP using GRUB for DOS