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Legacy Puppy - Booting problem
Posted: Mon 25 May 2020, 19:18
by memo
Hi all,
I am trying to boot legacy on my old laptop (IBM thinkpad) Processor 1.5 GHZ, and 1 GIG ram. However I got this error message;
ERROR, cannot find Puppy on 'idecd' boot media
PUPMODE=1 PDEV=
Exited to initial-ramdisk (/dev/ram0) command line ...
(the linux-guru can now debug, 'e3' editor is available)
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
any ideas How to solve it ?[/quote]
Posted: Mon 25 May 2020, 20:13
by Smithy
Can you boot any OS or Repair CD from your drive?
That’s a John Biles affair is it not.
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=legacy
Scroll to the bottom for comments.
Posted: Mon 25 May 2020, 23:51
by memo
yes I can load any other Puppy version in the pindrive, I donot have cD rom in that laptop, so I only can use the flashdrive.
Re: Legacy Puppy - Booting problem
Posted: Tue 26 May 2020, 00:51
by Gordie
memo wrote:Hi all,
I am trying to boot legacy on my old laptop (IBM thinkpad) Processor 1.5 GHZ, and 1 GIG ram. However I got this error message;
ERROR, cannot find Puppy on 'idecd' boot media
PUPMODE=1 PDEV=
Exited to initial-ramdisk (/dev/ram0) command line ...
(the linux-guru can now debug, 'e3' editor is available)
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
any ideas How to solve it ?
[/quote]
It appears that your computer is looking for a CD drive. Are you using an isohrbrid image?
Re: Legacy Puppy - Booting problem
Posted: Tue 26 May 2020, 00:52
by Gordie
memo wrote:Hi all,
I am trying to boot legacy on my old laptop (IBM thinkpad) Processor 1.5 GHZ, and 1 GIG ram. However I got this error message;
ERROR, cannot find Puppy on 'idecd' boot media
PUPMODE=1 PDEV=
Exited to initial-ramdisk (/dev/ram0) command line ...
(the linux-guru can now debug, 'e3' editor is available)
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
any ideas How to solve it ?
[/quote]
It appears that your computer is looking for a CD drive. Are you using an iso hybrid image?
Re: Legacy Puppy - Booting problem
Posted: Tue 26 May 2020, 09:40
by memo
[/quote]
It appears that your computer is looking for a CD drive. Are you using an iso hybrid image?[/quote]
I have n CD player in my laptop, so it is on a flashdrive, i put the iso on the flash drive using an app called unetbootin. I use it with all other puppies and they boot smoothly.
I did not quite understand what you mean with hybrid image, and how to check for that.
Posted: Tue 26 May 2020, 10:37
by pcplague2
Legacy is for pentium II machines that have CD (and can't boot from usb) so that's why is looking for it , newer puppys work better with USB.
What is your CPU model? I see you have 1Gb ram.
Now I'm testing in a 1Gb mem Pentium III M (1.2 GHz has no SSE2)
Code: Select all
http://www.mediafire.com/file/cc6m3wc6wtq95ln/tahr-6.0.6-k4.1.30-uefi.iso
from
Tahrpup 6.0.6 with the 4.1.30 Kernel & updated apps
Used rufus to burn image in a windows machine.
And for now I'm satisfied with it. Using puppy for 2 weeks and loving it.
Good luck
Posted: Tue 26 May 2020, 16:27
by memo
thanks pcplague2 for your suggestions. I ususally use xenialpup, but I were interested to try this OS. if I understand you correctly, you mean that , there is no quick fix to this CD problem that I can use to boot from a flash driver?
Posted: Tue 26 May 2020, 18:01
by pcplague2
there might be a way like easy os or easy pup is installed.
https://easyos.org/install/easy-frugal- ... ation.html
Good luck
Posted: Wed 27 May 2020, 00:01
by memo
after hundered of failed attempts I discovered it and I thought to post t here just in case someone needed it int he future.
in the boot screen enter the code
the original solution is from
https://www.linuxquestions.org/question ... ux-899800/