[solved] savefile; how to make Puppy use new location?

[mattrix]

I had to move my frugal wary 511 install from sda6 to sda7. I just copied everything accross, and modified grub.
EDIT: I have also renamed the directory on sda6

When it starts sda7 is mounted and sda6 is not mounted; but it does not load the savefile on sda7 (I have to setup xorg again, etc)

When I "reboot" before it shuts down wary mounts sda6 and offers to create a save file on sda6 ; from there I can change the directory but not the partition.

How can I make it use the savefile on sda7?

sda6 is not even the first linux partition on the disk

my boot paras are:

pmedia=atahd psubdir=wary-51 vga=normal

[Bruce B]

Did you modify grub hd, for example:

(hd0,5) or (hd0,6) something I think to look at

[mattrix]

Did you modify grub hd, for example:

(hd0,5) or (hd0,6)

Yes I fixed the partitions in grub, grub would complain if it couldnt find the kernel or initrd.

Puppy starts OK. Just the savefile isn't loaded.
Also sda7 is mounted, so I presume wary_511.sfs is loaded from sda7.

Wary seems to stop looking for a savefile at sda6

[Bruce B]

Did you modify grub hd, for example:

(hd0,5) or (hd0,6)

Yes I fixed the partitions in grub, grub would complain if it couldnt find the kernel or initrd.

You said you copied, if you hadn't said that, I wouldn't have made the post.

I just copied everything accross

That means vmlinuz and initrd.gz is still where it was and in the new location.

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[Darkgame]

copy everything from yr iso into the new partition, and make grub load from the new partition

[rcrsn51]

The other argument you want to use is "pdev1=sda7". This will force Puppy to look only in sda7.

However, I once had trouble moving a savefile to a different partition. There was something in the savefile that always referred back to the old location. The only solution was to start a new savefile and manually copy the content over from the old version.

[bigpup]

This could be causing your problem.
How finding save files works.
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01922

[Béèm]

I think BruceB had in mind that it would be better to move the files then to copy the files.
Now on boot, two copies of the same puppy files are found and I think the first one(s) found are used.

[mattrix]

I think BruceB had in mind that it would be better to move the files then to copy the files.

I see, sorry BruceB if I caused offence, none meant.

The other argument you want to use is "pdev1=sda7". This will force Puppy to look only in sda7

Thankyou rcrsn51, wary now loads the save file and wary_511.sfs from the same place.
Strange that it didn't want to put the savefile in the directory it loaded wary from.

thanks for the help everyone
wary now has a bigger kennel