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USB install 235

#1 Post by flebber »

Hi

I know the answer but this is just a nervous question. I am installing 235 to a 8Gb usb flash drive to run on my old inspiron 1150 which has no hard drive and no net connectivity.

Once installed it should be fine for me to change my PC bios to usb and boot up puppy and then update puppy to have ruby 1.9.2 and gems I need vim etc so that it has all functions I want for inspiron.

Is there any possible danger in this? A gotcha I should watch out for?
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#2 Post by flebber »

Actually on reboot on inspiron usb install fails to boot

Error

Peforming a switch root to the layered file system failed to sync kernel panic.
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#3 Post by Béèm »

At what kind of danger are you thinking?
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#4 Post by flebber »

I cant see how the files on my pc hard drive could be affected since I am booting of usb. But that is my concern that I will somehow stuff PC drive up
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#5 Post by flebber »

I cannot boot the USB device once installed following the PDF guide.

The

Peforming a switch root to the layered file system failed to sync kernel panic Attempting to Kill init!!!

This occurs on both laptop and PC.
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#6 Post by Béèm »

Files:
Any file on a mounted partition can be affected and infected.

Boot
More info is needed.Are you sure the boot is really done from the USB drive?
Can you post the contents of menu.lst.
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#7 Post by flebber »

Definetely USB as I don't have a hard drive and CD is ejected when USB install completed.

I cannot get menu.lst as I cannot boot to it.
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#8 Post by Béèm »

You can boot from the CD to get the menu.lst, isn't it?
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#9 Post by flebber »

Sorry I haven't used linux in a while. Exactly what should I do?
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#10 Post by Béèm »

Boot the puppy CD (you used one to create the USB installation)
Once at the desktop mount the USB stick and find the menu.lst on it.
Copy the contents here.
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#11 Post by flebber »

thats the issue I don't have a menu.lst on the usb after install.
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#12 Post by flebber »

This is eactly what I have on my usb after 2.4 or 2.5 usb install.

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#13 Post by Béèm »

It probably is in the directory boot
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#14 Post by flebber »

This is the error that is stopping me. I don't have a boot directory it is boot.msg that shows in screenshot.

I do have syslinux.cfg.

This is the error does it help


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Superblock does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem.

dumping last lines of /tmp/bootinit.log...
mount: mounting /dev/loop1 on /pup_ro1 failed
e2fsck: 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)
e2fsck: Bad magic number in superblock while trying to open /dev/loop1
mount: mounting /dev/loop1 on /pup_ro1 failed
Dumping last lines of kernel log...
<3>sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
<6> sda:sda1
<3>sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cahce: write through
<3>sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
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#15 Post by noryb009 »

Can you rename "lupusave-sayth.2fs" to "lupusave-sayth.2fs.backup", and reboot?
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#16 Post by Béèm »

I thought that that boot thinghy was a directory.
Not a good idea to do this in windows.

What is the contents of syslinux.cfg
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#17 Post by Brown Mouse »

flebber wrote:This is eactly what I have on my usb after 2.4 or 2.5 usb install.

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It looks to me like you are missing the file 'ldlinux.sys'but from the Windows screen shot its difficult to tell.
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#18 Post by flebber »

I have and it booted to error with.

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Peforming a switch root to the layered file system failed to sync kernel panic Attempting to Kill init!!!
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#19 Post by Béèm »

The contents of syslinux.cfg is needed.
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#20 Post by cthisbear »

flebber :

Dell is crappy on booting USBs.

Have you hit F2 and then typed

puppy pmedia=usbflash

As long as you type just one letter....Puppy won't boot
till you hit enter.

And you have checked Gparted??
LBA and Boot >> checked

"""""""""""""

You saved to the usb after the Universal Installer when you rebooted.

NO! No!

Delete the pupsave.
Otherwise it seems to be corrrect.

""""""""""

Here are mine.

boot.msg

help.msg

initrd.gz

ldlinux.sys

logo.16

syslinux.cfg

vmlinuz

luci-235.sfs

Chris.
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