Hello!
I wanted to use a 450 Mhz-PC with 64 MB RAM as a desktop-PC with a small linux (which is the only OS on this PC).
After booting "puppy-2.13-seamonkey-fulldrivers" with Xorg from bootable live-CD, it works fine.
My 8 GB-HD was empty, partitioned with cfdisk into 2 partitions (82=linux).
I installed Puppy with "Menu / Setup / ... installation / on internal HD IDE-ATA". Normal installation (not "coexist"), on hda1@ext2.
Using: GRUP with option MBR (as suggested), installed on hda1 and additionally on floppy.
Now, when start my PC from HD, GRUB loads, and asks wether to boot "Linux from HDA1" or "Linux from HDA2" (see the second screenshot - its a digicam-photo ).
When i hit ENTER on Linux-HDA1, i get a completely black screen and nothing happens.
For your information: The first screenshot shows the information, when I hit 'e' on Linux-HDA1.
Whats trong?
Best regards,
Jan
PS: I'm a really Linux-Noobie ... its my first installation of linux, so plz dont deal so severely with me
Harddisc-Installation fails: GRUB loads only black screen
maybe the vga=769 is causing trouble ... try pressing e when you boot, edit the line and delete the vga=769 and press enter to boot Puppy ... if it boots ok, you can delete the vga=769 from the menu.lst file
is vmlinuz in the correct place? (in /boot on hda1) ... try pressing c when you boot, then type at the Grub command line:
root (hd0,0)
find /boot/vmlinuz
it should find it on (hd0,0) ... it might be located on /vmlinuz
or the problem may not be with Grub
is vmlinuz in the correct place? (in /boot on hda1) ... try pressing c when you boot, then type at the Grub command line:
root (hd0,0)
find /boot/vmlinuz
it should find it on (hd0,0) ... it might be located on /vmlinuz
or the problem may not be with Grub
hm, i tried to use your hints, and removed the vga=... without success.
Then I rebooted from CD again, used "Gparted Partition manager", deleted the paritions, created them again as ext-2, and formated hda-1.
Now i installed Puppy again to internal IDE-ATA-HD with the "universal puppy installer".
I used the same options like before.
Then, shutdown, and "save settings to HD" (in the installation before I choosed "do not save".
Now it works
Strange ... the only differences between first and second try was, that i formated now with "Gparted PM", before I used cfdisk. And after power-off the live-boot (from which i installed it), i choose "save2HD" instead of "do not save".
Then I rebooted from CD again, used "Gparted Partition manager", deleted the paritions, created them again as ext-2, and formated hda-1.
Now i installed Puppy again to internal IDE-ATA-HD with the "universal puppy installer".
I used the same options like before.
Then, shutdown, and "save settings to HD" (in the installation before I choosed "do not save".
Now it works
Strange ... the only differences between first and second try was, that i formated now with "Gparted PM", before I used cfdisk. And after power-off the live-boot (from which i installed it), i choose "save2HD" instead of "do not save".
cfdisk doesn't make that partition bootable by default. You have to elect to make it bootable before writing the partition info to the drive. OTOH, Gparted automatically makes the partition bootable. Perhaps that was the problem?Nyks wrote:Strange ... the only differences between first and second try was, that i formated now with "Gparted PM", before I used cfdisk. And after power-off the live-boot (from which i installed it), i choose "save2HD" instead of "do not save".
I dont think so; cfdisk warnt me with a dialog-box, that no BOOT-flag was set; so i corrected this before apply the changes.
Grub was started correctly, so i assumed that boot(-sector) was OK.
But perhaps i did this or another mistakes while partitioning/formating.
Now its running fine (although Seamonkey is reallly (!) slow with multiple open tabs), and Dillo seems to have strange html-rendering.
I havent got created an swap-partition; hda2 is ext-2 (linux), unused, ~3 gig.
hda1 is 5 GB and contains puppy (puppy show "4,9G" free memoney in systemtray).
Do i need to create a swap manually?
Grub was started correctly, so i assumed that boot(-sector) was OK.
But perhaps i did this or another mistakes while partitioning/formating.
Now its running fine (although Seamonkey is reallly (!) slow with multiple open tabs), and Dillo seems to have strange html-rendering.
I havent got created an swap-partition; hda2 is ext-2 (linux), unused, ~3 gig.
hda1 is 5 GB and contains puppy (puppy show "4,9G" free memoney in systemtray).
Do i need to create a swap manually?
Yes. Use Gparted from the Control Panel menu option. How big depends on RAM so in your case 128Mb to 256Mb is plenty.Nyks wrote:I havent got created an swap-partition; hda2 is ext-2 (linux), unused, ~3 gig.
hda1 is 5 GB and contains puppy (puppy show "4,9G" free memoney in systemtray).
Do i need to create a swap manually?
Choices for faster browsing are Opera 9.10 from the Puppy Software Installer (PSI) repos, and Swiftfox processor-specific Firefox from the web. Either is pretty darn quick, but Opera includes a mail client like Seamonkey and Swiftfox would need Thunderbird installed separately.
Hope that helps
I also suggest swapfile than swap partition. If you want to create a 128M one please follow this:
In terminal type:
#dd if=dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=131077
This will create a swapfile to your / directory.
#mkswap /swapfile
Then put this line to rc.local:
swapon /swapfile
After next boot you'll have swapfile.
In terminal type:
#dd if=dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=131077
This will create a swapfile to your / directory.
#mkswap /swapfile
Then put this line to rc.local:
swapon /swapfile
After next boot you'll have swapfile.