Thanks vg for your suggestions. Tried but still not successful. Gets further but ends up with kernel panic. Tried taking out one parameter at a time but no joy and lost myself what I had or had not tried. I don't think my drive is sata BTW.vg1 wrote:mawebb88.
Edit: in your case it should read:
Make sure that you have a 'satahd' flag on sda2, which you probably do already. P214R has a problem when booting a frugal install the first time without a pup_save. Either boot from cd first & create a pup_save on exit, or borrow a copy of an existing pup_save & try with that. It probably won't work correctly and you will later discard it, but if you do succeed to boot then with this save_file file in the appropriate dir [and named pup_save.2fs so it is pointed to correctly in the above entry] you should be able to boot with pfix=ram and create a proper pup_save on exit.Code: Select all
title Puppy214X rootnoverify (hd0,1)/puppy214X kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 PMEDIA=satahd PDEV1=sda2 PUPMODE=12 SFSFILE=ntfs,sda2,/puppy214X/pup_214R.sfs ZDRV=ntfs,sda2,/puppy214X/zdrv_214R.sfs PUPSAVE=ntfs,sda2,/puppy214X/pup_save.2fs # pfix=fsck DEV1FS=ntfs initrd /initrd.gz
Once you get it going you can add DEV1FS=ntfs to the kernel line to gain a sec or two at boot.
Does that help?
vg
BTW I have 214R working fine from a USB stick on the same PC. I think I just try 214X from the same stick for my next move. Will report back if I have any further news.
Rgds Mike