Option to boot in RAM In grub4dos...

[watchdog]

Booting frugal puppy with grub4dos automatically loads the savefile when it is just one. To see an option to boot in live mode without a savefile you must have two or more savefiles or you must use a separate menu entry in menu.lst. How about to also add an option to boot in live mode when you have only a savefile without using a separate grub4dos menu entry?

[musher0]

Hi watchdog.

At the CD/DVD prompt, type
puppy pfix=ram
and the Puppy will start without the save file, as it was originally.

Similarly, add
pfix=ram
to your grub4dos entry (on the kernel line) and your Puppy will
start without the save file.

Some users create an additional entry for "Puppy - no savefile"
with that parameter in the menu.lst to boot their Puppy pristine.

IHTH

[watchdog]

How to change initrd.gz and init script to always show a "0 nosavefile" choice at boot?

[musher0]

Sorry. I misread your OP.

What I use is this: enter your Puppy directory, open a terminal and type

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echo . > stretchsave-dummy.2fs

(Replace the "stretch" part with the name of your pup. It could be
tahrsave-dummy.2fs, for example.)

This does not create an additional entry in the menu.lst. Simply at one
point the boot process will stop and display something like:

0 Pristine Puppy
1 stretchsave-dummy.2fs # (or whatever the name of your Pup)
2 stretchsave-real.3fs # (or whatever the name of your real save file)

This allows you to type 0 or 2, according to your need.
And then the boot process continues normally.
No need to change anything in initrd.gz, etc.

IHTH.

[dancytron]

Sorry. I misread your OP.

What I use is this: enter your Puppy directory, open a terminal and type

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echo . > stretchsave-dummy.2fs

(Replace the "stretch" part with the name of your pup. It could be
tahrsave-dummy.2fs, for example.)

This does not create an additional entry in the menu.lst. Simply at one
point the boot process will stop and display something like:

0 Pristine Puppy
1 stretchsave-dummy.2fs # (or whatever the name of your Pup)
2 stretchsave-real.3fs # (or whatever the name of your real save file)

This allows you to type 0 or 2, according to your need.
And then the boot process continues normally.
No need to change anything in initrd.gz, etc.

IHTH.

Or you can incorporate it into you backup process. Just make the minimal settings you normally make and name your savefile something like tahrsave-first.2fs. Then, boot with pfix=ram or into another Puppy and copy the tahrsave-first.2fs file and call it something like tahrsave-main.2fs. Then you get the same choice as Musher described and you have an extra minimal save file to boot into if you have problems with your main one. This approach also works with save folders.

[watchdog]

Yes, no need to change init script. Many thanks.

[Pelo]

When there is only one save file, i create a second one, but blank.
pelosave-vide.2fs
Then computer stops boot with proposal
0 (ram)
1 (real savefile)
2 blank save file

[musher0]

Ahem.

There is no Puppy called "peloPup". Therefore, there can be no
pupsave file called pelosave-whatever.?fs. Further, all pupsave files must
have an ending of 2fs, or 3fs, or 4fs. Only the Puppy system files have an
ending of sfs.

So your example won't and cannot work, pelo. Why are you giving wrong
information to watchdog?

Geez.

[Pelo]

Typing error. My process is guaranteed (used thousands of times)
Sure replace pelosave by the valid pupsave name of your Puppy running

[musher0]

Typing error. My process is guaranteed (used thousands of times)
Sure replace pelosave by the valid pupsave name of your Puppy running

Typing error, my eye. Your initial message was totally unnecessary, since I
had already informed watchdog of the process, plus dancytron later
offered a variant of it.

"La parole est d'argent, mais le silence est d'or." /
"Speech is silver, but silence is gold."
You'll never learn to shut up when not needed, won't you?

[nic007]

I know the poster asked how to do it without an extra menu entry but surely the extra menu entry soluton is the easiest and most convenient way. Just call the one entry RAM mode in the title. I am trying to think why someone would want to use the extra fake savefile method if one only has one savefile.

[Burn_IT]

It could have been done in the time it took to write the question in the first place -as said.