first of all thanks to everybody who helps making Puppy Linux and all its derivatives and additional packages such a good piece of OS and software. Great work and fun to use !
Having played around with Puppy 2.16 and 2.17.1 recently, I noticed some weird booting behavior of my frugal installation. In the forum I read about several reasons, but none that explained what happened on my PC, so I post my experience to see if anybody can confirm / explain this.
This is what happens:
(Puppy files always in / of partition, not in a directory)
Step 1: 2.16 installed on separate partition (hda12, since it shares the drive with Win and openSuse) boots fine via Grub.
Step 2: I insert CD with 2.17.1, booting from CD just fine, update to 2.17.1 performed.
Step 3: Booting 2.17.1 from HD fails.
Step 4: I copy the Puppy files to a lower partition (e.g. hda7) and change the menu.lst entry to reflect this: Puppy 2.17.1 boots.
(Step 5: Trying to copy and boot from hdb6 after copying the files and changing menu.lst fails.)
I noticed that during boot Puppy writes what partitions it searches files in - 2.17.1 seems to stop at hda8 (or was it 9 ?) while 2.16 found hda12 just fine.
Explanation I can think of:
1. Puppy requires its files to be on the primary HD.
2. Puppy 2.17.1 checks only the first few partitions on this drive and gives up too early.
Is there any mention of partition / drive limits that I have missed ?
Happy puppying
Whelp
