I booted up the Puppy CD. Everything looks and seems to work well (video, audio, network); it mounts, reads, writes sda5(swap) sda6(ext2) sda7(Reiser)
I went through the installation process, gave it its own partition(sda6) to take over
On reboot this is how far we got :
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
Freeing unused kernel memory: 168k freed
/sbin/init: /lib/libc.so.6: version 'GLIBC-2.3.4' not found (required by /sbin/init)
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init !
It choked there, needed on/off switch to restart machine
HD install own partition
I've seen that once before with my system when I had the pup_xxx.sfs in the wrong place with a manual install. I had put mine in the /puppy directory along with vmlinuz and initrd files. It needs to be at the "/" level although the other boot files can be in sub-directories. If it is there, make sure the menu.lst file is pointing to the right partition as the root. If I read what you have correctly it should be rootnoverify (hd0,5).
Hmm, looks about right except for the missing parens around the drive specifier. Not sure exactly what is not happening.
Mine looks like this for my second drive:
My guess is your section should look something like this:
Mine looks like this for my second drive:
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title Puppy Linux2.10
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
kernel (hd1,0)/puppy210/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 PMEDIA=idehd
initrd (hd1,0)/puppy210/initrd.gz
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title Puppy Linux2.10
rootnoverify (hd0,5)
kernel (hd0,5)/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 PMEDIA=idehd
initrd (hd0,5)/initrd.gz
You will most likely need to use the wizards to re-setup the ethernet and sound driver from the HD boot. After configuring the ALSA sound, open a terminal window and test it by playing a sound:
If you donot hear the bark, run alsamixer to set the volume and you should be good to go.
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aplay /usr/share/sounds/bark.au
Unfortunately it is a bit more than that
ALSA does not configure. It says there is no sound card
Wired network does not configure. It says there is no module. It knows about my SiS900
Wireless config says my card works fine, even though there is no wireless card in this machine.
So, something is cross-wired here
It boots without vmlinuz and initrd being at root or anywhere I could find them
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When I boot using the CD, everything works fine. I am online, writing this post using Puppy, listening to StreamTuner.
aplay -N /usr/share/sounds/sxy_back.wav greeted me
What does "-N' do ?
fstab
/dev/sda7 /home reiserfs defaults,auto 0 0
but I have to mount sda7 manually. How do I persuade Puppy to mount my /home auto ?
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One day someone might come out with a Linux that installs, drives my video (SiS761), my sound (SiS7012), my network (SiS900); all in one.
So far I tried on this machine (Acer Aspire AST136/19"LCD) Xandros, Ubuntu, S.u.S.E. Mandriva, Linpus, UHU,Vector, Zenwalk, Feather, DSL, Slax, Blue Water, GrafPuppy, Luit; but no luck. The big ones cannot drive my video, the smaller ones my sound.
Only Knoppix installs and drives everything
And, of course, NT5
ALSA does not configure. It says there is no sound card
Wired network does not configure. It says there is no module. It knows about my SiS900
Wireless config says my card works fine, even though there is no wireless card in this machine.
So, something is cross-wired here
It boots without vmlinuz and initrd being at root or anywhere I could find them
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When I boot using the CD, everything works fine. I am online, writing this post using Puppy, listening to StreamTuner.
aplay -N /usr/share/sounds/sxy_back.wav greeted me
What does "-N' do ?
fstab
/dev/sda7 /home reiserfs defaults,auto 0 0
but I have to mount sda7 manually. How do I persuade Puppy to mount my /home auto ?
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One day someone might come out with a Linux that installs, drives my video (SiS761), my sound (SiS7012), my network (SiS900); all in one.
So far I tried on this machine (Acer Aspire AST136/19"LCD) Xandros, Ubuntu, S.u.S.E. Mandriva, Linpus, UHU,Vector, Zenwalk, Feather, DSL, Slax, Blue Water, GrafPuppy, Luit; but no luck. The big ones cannot drive my video, the smaller ones my sound.
Only Knoppix installs and drives everything
And, of course, NT5
I've been looking for information on you problem and all I can find is that perhaps there is something amiss with the reiserfs. From what I can find, it seems reiser is the least stable of the 3 most popular linux file systems ( ext2, ext3 and reiser). I know puppy will work fine with Fat32, ext2 and ext3 if you need journaling so I would try making the partition one of those types and see if things work out.
Thank you for your time and trouble cplater
In the meantime I formated, installed and re-installed ... and now I have puppy installed and working on sda6 ext3. I have no idea what went right this time.
Perhaps the fact that Wolvix just released a distro that does all those things I listed the last time was a warning to Puppy to come to its senses and behave (or else)
Other questions :
How do I tell Puppy to mount sda7 as /home automatically at boot as other Linuxes do ? It ignores the line in fstab, but when I mount it in MUT it is /home.
How do I tell Puppy NOT to look for USB devices on boot up ? I don't use any of them (6), it just slows down the process.
Why Puppy only likes vga=normal ? With every other settings it is blank screen until boot is finished and gui pops up.
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I tryed Puppy on the laptop, too. (there is Ubuntu there, perhaps not for long) It likes it and drives ATI Radeon XPress 200M, 1280x800.
I have Atheros AR5006EG built in wireless, so first I wanted to see if WAG notices it -- it didn't.
So I put in my D-link card (same chip set) ... this one is to his liking. Ndiswrapper made driver for it from CD.
At first I clicked on "no pcmcia" in the wag setup. Now I would like to click on yes pcmcia, but wag won't go back to beginning of the setup. Is this why Puppy doesn't remember wireless settings ? Others asked about how to make Puppy remember wireless setting, too; but didn't see any good answer.
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As for Mr. Reiser being a murderer (if he is ?), I couldn't care less. Never met the man, until this post I didn't even know that this file system was named after a person. Now that I know, I still only care about reiserfs, not the man who wrote it. How many programmers went to jail for this and that and the other in the past 30 years ? Big name distributions use it as standard, S.u.S.E. put it on my hard drive, and now I have too much stuff collected there to re-format it.
Garry Glitter is a boy-molestor -- and that is actually disgusting -- yet his "rock and roll" is played at hockey games.
Mr. Gates is a criminal against humanity, yet a thousand million people happily use windows (not that they have a say, or know any better).
But, since you brought up the subject, what is wrong with reiserfs ? and if it is so bad why did all those distros switched over to it ?
In the meantime I formated, installed and re-installed ... and now I have puppy installed and working on sda6 ext3. I have no idea what went right this time.
Perhaps the fact that Wolvix just released a distro that does all those things I listed the last time was a warning to Puppy to come to its senses and behave (or else)
Other questions :
How do I tell Puppy to mount sda7 as /home automatically at boot as other Linuxes do ? It ignores the line in fstab, but when I mount it in MUT it is /home.
How do I tell Puppy NOT to look for USB devices on boot up ? I don't use any of them (6), it just slows down the process.
Why Puppy only likes vga=normal ? With every other settings it is blank screen until boot is finished and gui pops up.
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I tryed Puppy on the laptop, too. (there is Ubuntu there, perhaps not for long) It likes it and drives ATI Radeon XPress 200M, 1280x800.
I have Atheros AR5006EG built in wireless, so first I wanted to see if WAG notices it -- it didn't.
So I put in my D-link card (same chip set) ... this one is to his liking. Ndiswrapper made driver for it from CD.
At first I clicked on "no pcmcia" in the wag setup. Now I would like to click on yes pcmcia, but wag won't go back to beginning of the setup. Is this why Puppy doesn't remember wireless settings ? Others asked about how to make Puppy remember wireless setting, too; but didn't see any good answer.
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As for Mr. Reiser being a murderer (if he is ?), I couldn't care less. Never met the man, until this post I didn't even know that this file system was named after a person. Now that I know, I still only care about reiserfs, not the man who wrote it. How many programmers went to jail for this and that and the other in the past 30 years ? Big name distributions use it as standard, S.u.S.E. put it on my hard drive, and now I have too much stuff collected there to re-format it.
Garry Glitter is a boy-molestor -- and that is actually disgusting -- yet his "rock and roll" is played at hockey games.
Mr. Gates is a criminal against humanity, yet a thousand million people happily use windows (not that they have a say, or know any better).
But, since you brought up the subject, what is wrong with reiserfs ? and if it is so bad why did all those distros switched over to it ?
VGA Settings
On the vga, I use vga=6. I believe any number can be used, from 0 thru 9, giving different sizes.
Kal
Kal
nothing, until you crash ... the last time i crashed with a reiserfs drive mounted, it took an hour and a half for the file system check to finish ... the ext3 drive took about 10 secondssubject, what is wrong with reiserfs ?
maybe reiserfs has better file system checking tools now, i don't know, i avoid reiserfs
theoretically, certain benchmarks show reiserfs is faster, under certain circumstanceswhy did all those distros switched over to it ?
in practical real world every day use, i have not noticed that reiserfs is significantly faster ... i would prefer reliablility to a slight increase in drive access speed
i usually choose ext3
All right. That sounds convincing and reason enough. I am willing to copy stuff onto sda6 and format sda7. What should the format be ? ext2 or ext3 ? what difference would journaling make to me ?
Regarding vga=1-6
Yes, it makes characters smaller (ugly as can be); but what I am looking for is the frame buffering and the penguin in the top left corner that vga=773 and other 3-digit numbers should get me.
Regarding vga=1-6
Yes, it makes characters smaller (ugly as can be); but what I am looking for is the frame buffering and the penguin in the top left corner that vga=773 and other 3-digit numbers should get me.
not a lot of difference .. unless you crash or remove a flash drive without unmounting it firstext2 or ext3 ? what difference would journaling make to me ?
you are less likely to lose data after a crash if the file system is journalled ... and a file system check is usually much faster, often only 10 or 20 seconds
ext3 might work a little faster than ext2, sometimes, because the drivers have more information so they can access the drive more efficiently
the journal takes up space, so there is a little less space on an ext3 file system
you should be able to convert ext2 to ext3 fairly easily anyway
different file systems each have their own strengths and weaknesses ... ext3 seems to be relatively reliable and seems to be good enough for my purposes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFS