Hi
I have been trying to test out some older versions of puppy and I am having some difficulty getting 2 and 3 series to boot like the 5 and 4 series do.
I am getting an error about it not being able to find puppy.
I would guess I am doing something wrong in grub, but I cant figure out what it is.
Here is what I have listed in grub, this is all on one hard drive and one partition.
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Puppy Linux 511 frugal in sda1 dir puppy511
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
kernel /puppy511/vmlinuz pmedia=atahd psubdir=puppy511
initrd /puppy511/initrd.gz
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Puppy Linux 431 frugal in sda1 dir puppy431
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
kernel /puppy431/vmlinuz pmedia=atahd psubdir=puppy431
initrd /puppy431/initrd.gz
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title = Puppy 216 on hda1
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/puppy216/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 pmedia=idehd
initrd (hd0,0)/puppy216/initrd.gz
The first two boot no problem but the 216 will not.
Also, should I be able to to tell a speed difference between these versions, the older being faster?
I am trying this on a AMD Duron 1.3 with 512 meg of ram.
Thank you for your time.
Mark
Puppy 2 & 3 series boot problems
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I have 3.x.x versions in subdirs working.
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Find packages in a snap and install using Puppy Package Manager (Menu).
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Use peppyy's puppysearch
They can still be used with subfolders just not in the same way. Your grub menu is okay but the sfs files need to be in the top level / directory not in the subfolder where you put vmlinuz and initrd.gz.Mark_C wrote:Thank you for the quick reply.
I will put a different drive in it, this will allow me to try these older versions.
rcrsn51 wrote:The old versions were not designed to work with subfolders.
I think for Puppy 2.15, 2.16 and 2.17 that the sfs files don't even need to be on the same disk as the vmlinuz and initrd.gz files as long as they are in / on that disk.