Hi everyone, if all goes well hopefully I'll be a new Puppy user, though I expect to be on a newer computer with Ubuntu on my every day computer instead of this ancient one I'm trying to run Puppy on.
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So I think I got everything set up pretty well. I was following the manual english frugal install instructions along with the on-screen install instructions and notes. This is frugal, 512mb save file of ext3, on ext3 partition.
(btw, was frugal the way to go? I have exactly 256mb PC66 sdr ram. It's a small 8gb bigfoot IDE HDD with Dos and XP on it so I've only got like 1.3gb available for linux. It definitely seems to run well; I'm just a bit concerned about the ram as install more programs...)
I ran grub config [EDIT: not Grub4Dos; instructions said grub config] because everything I read seemed to say only Grub would be able to boot linux....although I think I just read at lin win newb that I could have used boot.ini??? If so, I would have done that; I know how to that and had to mess with it to dual boot DOS and XP.
But I don't have time, so I'm not going to go back now. I've searched and looked for how to fix, but you know, unless I find something EXACTLY like my situation, I'm a linux noob, I can't figure out what to do. Not to mention I see people putting or suggesting slightly different additional commands to the menu.lst so I don't get it.
Dos is on 1st partition, XP on 2nd, and Puppy on 3rd (an ext3 partition). Puppy shows this drive as sda3. The folder I think grub looks for / is isntalled to is LucidPuppy525Rhoi. The files in this folder are Lupu_525.sfs, ATAHD, initrd.gz, and vmlinuz (which I copied from CD when I noticed it was missing).
Here's my menu.lst, so I hope someone can tell me what needs to be fixed. Thanks!
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# GRUB configuration file '/boot/grub/menu.lst'.
# generated by 'grubconfig'. Mon Aug 15 02:15:34 2011
#
# The backup copy of the MBR for drive '/dev/sda' is
# here '/boot/grub/mbr.sda.15153'. You can restore it like this.
# dd if=/boot/grub/mbr.sda.15153 of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
#
# Start GRUB global section
#timeout 30
color light-gray/blue black/light-gray
# End GRUB global section
# Other bootable partition config begins
title DOS (on /dev/sda1)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
# Other bootable partition config ends
# Other bootable partition config begins
title Windows (on /dev/sda2)
map (hd0,0) (hd0,1)
map (hd0,1) (hd0,0)
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1
# Other bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Lucid Puppy 5.2.5 Frugal (on /dev/sda3)
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
kernel /LucidPuppy525Rhoi/vmlinuz pmedia=idehd psubdir=LucidPuppy525Rhoi
initrd /LucidPuppy525Rhoi/initrd.gz
## title Linux (on /dev/sda3)
## root (hd0,2)
## kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends
title Install GRUB to floppy disk (on /dev/fd0)
pause Insert a formatted floppy disk and press enter.
root (hd0,2)
setup (fd0)
pause Press enter to continue.
title Install GRUB to Linux partition (on /dev/sda3)
root (hd0,2)
setup (hd0,2)
pause Press enter to continue.
title - For help press 'c', then type: 'help'
root (hd0)
title - For usage examples, type: 'cat /boot/grub/usage.txt'
root (hd0)