Puppy stopped booting after ALL PARTITIONS DELETED
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Puppy stopped booting after ALL PARTITIONS DELETED
So my dad comes to me the other day and tells me his Puppy won't boot.
I installed the newest version, and he was having problems with his wireless.. it was working fine and then just stopped one day.
So he wanted to install a fresh copy, but what he did that he never told me was he went to the partition manager and deleted everything..
now it won't even boot.. I'm getting the black screen and says LOADING GRUB FAILED.
Any ideas on how I can get Puppy back on this machine?? I still have the .iso I burned and even that doesn't work right now
HELP ME PLEASE.
I installed the newest version, and he was having problems with his wireless.. it was working fine and then just stopped one day.
So he wanted to install a fresh copy, but what he did that he never told me was he went to the partition manager and deleted everything..
now it won't even boot.. I'm getting the black screen and says LOADING GRUB FAILED.
Any ideas on how I can get Puppy back on this machine?? I still have the .iso I burned and even that doesn't work right now
HELP ME PLEASE.
Since everything on the hard drive has been blown away, your only alternative is to start with a working boot CD of something. There is a program called testdisk that tries to recover lost partitions. If you could get Puppy running off its Live CD, it might be helpful.I still have the .iso I burned and even that doesn't work right now
Is your CD not working because of a BIOS boot order issue?
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I put in Puppy 4.3.1 or whatever the latest is..jemimah wrote:You should be able to boot from the CD even if the drive is totally toasted. Do you get an error message at all?
changed boot device priority to my external burner 1st, HD 2nd
got this error upon reboot:
GRUB Loading stage 1.5
GRUB loading, please wait...
Error 22
any ideas?
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no menu, just black screen with the wordsrcrsn51 wrote:Since you are getting a GRUB error off a boot CD, it sounds like this not an original Puppy CD but some kind of remaster.
Error 22 means "Partition not found". When GRUB comes up do you get a chance to see the menu? If so, press the "e" key and report back with the menu entry.
GRUB loading, please wait...
Error 22
so I need to burn an original of puppy and then she should boot?
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update
so I burned a new .iso and I'm getting the exact same error
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how do I get the CD to boot?rcrsn51 wrote:Then you aren't actually booting off the CD. The error message is coming from the remnants of GRUB on the hard drive.
I have the external dvd burner w/ the .iso as #1 in boot priority.. so you're saying it's skipping the DVD burner and going straight to the HD?
I really need to get this up and running tonight.. thank you for any help
Try booting the CD with the boot option puppy pfix=ram. For some reason your computer is still trying to boot from the hard disk. That's the only way it would be giving you a Grub error.
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it's my dvd burner.. I disabled the HD boot and only had the external dvd burner as the only option.. it's loading, but super super slow--Flash wrote:Try booting the CD with the boot option puppy pfix=ram. For some reason your computer is still trying to boot from the hard disk. That's the only way it would be giving you a Grub error.
will update shortly
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yes the dvd burner plugs into a USB port. How do I know if my BIOS can boot from USB? this is so frustrating.Flash wrote:Your external DVD burner probably plugs into a USB port. To boot from it, your computer's BIOS would need to be capable of booting from USB. That's why it's going to the hard disk, which evidently still has the first sector intact.
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A modern unit like a netbook should be able to boot from a USB optical drive. On my netbook, I don't have to enter the BIOS to set the boot priority. There is a startup option that lets me select from the available bootable devices.
Have you tried the disk on another machine to verify that it burned OK?
Have you tried the disk on another machine to verify that it burned OK?
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getting this error nowrcrsn51 wrote:Since you are getting a GRUB error off a boot CD, it sounds like this not an original Puppy CD but some kind of remaster.
Error 22 means "Partition not found". When GRUB comes up do you get a chance to see the menu? If so, press the "e" key and report back with the menu entry.
Kernel panice - not synching: VFS: Unable to mount roof fs on unknown-block(8,18)
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