Hi,
mavrothal wrote:Tried alpha2 briefly on a manual frugal install and found no way to get sfs loader to load the devx.
I guess this is answered somewhere in the pervious 14 pages. Would someone point me to it please (and maybe add it to the top or Q&A post).
I can't remember whether it is in System or Setup menu, but there is a "System SFS Loader" that enables you to any sfs that you need. The SFS loader can load SFS from anywhere (by default from /mnt/home) - just choose the folder that contains the SFS, then click "refresh". If you want to load the SFS at every boot, click "load permanently" before loading it.
Another strange thing is that although vmlinuz/initrd were in the /FatDog folder of the boot device, the savefile went to the root of the device with no option to change that.
That makes it a bit messy when FatDog is installed along few other puppies in a partition.
You can put the savefile anywhere. By default Fatdog only tries to look at the root of the partition to make it faster. But if you know exactly where is the savefile, you can put the "savefile" boot parameter as follows:
savefile=direct:device:sda6:/path/to/savefile.
- direct means directly use savefile (not using RAM layer) - just like standard puppy PUPMODE=12
- device means you want to specify the device name
- sda6 is - well - that's your partition
- /path/to/savefile
For for possibilities on the savefile, you can read the boot-options FAQ specified in the 1st (or 2nd) post.
When running without any savefile (savefile=none), during shutdown you will be asked to create a savefile. This savefile doesn't have to be in the root partition, it can be elsewhere too. Just type the full path as needed (don't worry if the subdirectory doesn't exist yet; the savefile creation tool will create it for you).
cheers!
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