Stops at boot prompt on many laptops
Posted: Sun 04 Dec 2005, 14:42
Puppy stops at boot prompt on many laptops. Four other people have reported this problem in the "Acer Travelmate" thread but I decided to start a new thread with a more generic title.
This problem started with Puppy 1.04 and persists to 1.06. Versions 1.00 to 1.03 did not have this problem. It's been reported on Acer, Medion, Packard Bell, HP, and Centrino laptops.
When booting, an image of the puppy, and the following text is shown:
Could not find kernel image: 1
boot: _
"FidoNetUser" supplied the following workaround - enter this at the prompt:
boot: vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 initrd=image.gz PFILE=pup001
However, he reported that when the script tried to mount the pup001 file, there was a superblock error, and Puppy lamented that it wouldn't be able to save anything permanently, but he mounted the pup file with no problems manually. I found exactly the same problem.
This problem started with Puppy 1.04 and persists to 1.06. Versions 1.00 to 1.03 did not have this problem. It's been reported on Acer, Medion, Packard Bell, HP, and Centrino laptops.
When booting, an image of the puppy, and the following text is shown:
Could not find kernel image: 1
boot: _
"FidoNetUser" supplied the following workaround - enter this at the prompt:
boot: vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 initrd=image.gz PFILE=pup001
However, he reported that when the script tried to mount the pup001 file, there was a superblock error, and Puppy lamented that it wouldn't be able to save anything permanently, but he mounted the pup file with no problems manually. I found exactly the same problem.