520 - Boot partition not found

[captobvious]

I have a dell 910 netbook with no cd drive so I attempted to install 520 to a usb flash drive with unetbootin:

Lupu-520 ->
http://www.diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/lupu-520.iso
37a843833b65e8246bb08c2913b823a3 lupu-520.iso

Unetbootin 4.94
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

the initial puppy boot screen comes up, then the second screen goes like this:

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Loading drivers needed to access disk drives..........done
Searching for Puppy files in computer disk drives....pausing pausing
Searching deeper, sub-sub-folders in partitions... pausing pausing 
Boot partition not found. Dropping out to initial-ramdisk console....
/bin/sh/: can't access tty: job control turned off
#

anyone have a better suggestion to get an .iso bootable on a flash drive?

Thanks!

-chris

[rcrsn51]

Look on the flash drive for the file syslinux.cfg. If it contains the clause "pmedia=cd", change it to "pmedia=usbflash".

[captobvious]

Contents of

syslinux.cfg

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default puppy
display boot.msg
prompt 1
timeout 50

F1 boot.msg
F2 help.msg
F3 help2.msg

label puppy
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=cd

after changing pmedia=cd to pmedia=usbflash

EVERYTHING WORKED! Thanks ya'll, you saved me from the tortured existence of ubuntu remix!

-chris

[qmnaeem]

Hi, thanks bro, it worked fine and the Puppy booted smoothly. Thanks for your assitance.

[apogarte]

hello

tell me if it is ok to expand this thread with the following

i am trying to make a frugal install of lucid puppy 5.2 on an ext2 usb key

key is 4 Go two partitions 1 is ext2 boot flag 1,9 Go, 2 is ext2 for other purposes

procedure : mount -o loop the iso in a directory called lupu
copy the files from lupu to the root of the key
install extlinux on the key -> sdb1 is quoted
move isolinux.cfg to extlinux.conf
remove boot.cat and isolinux.bin
edit extlinux.conf and replace pmedia=cd with pmedia=usbflash

reboot on the key : vmlinuz and initrd start, searching for lupu_520.sfs, not found, dropped to a shell

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anybody can help ?

content of the key root directory :

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 126 13 janv. 15:17 boot.msg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 156 13 janv. 18:20 extlinux.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 168 13 janv. 18:03 extlinuxconf.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1200 13 janv. 15:17 help2.msg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1235 13 janv. 15:17 help.msg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1836727 13 janv. 15:17 initrd.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 32768 13 janv. 15:18 ldlinux.sys
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19689 13 janv. 15:17 logo.16
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 13 janv. 11:30 lost+found
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 128282640 13 janv. 11:40 lupu_520.sfs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2228816 13 janv. 15:17 vmlinuz

content of extlinux.conf :

default puppy
display boot.msg
prompt 1
timeout 50

F1 boot.msg
F2 help.msg
F3 help2.msg

label puppy
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=usbflash

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thanks for your suggestions...

[rcrsn51]

I just set up an ext2 flash drive with lupu 520 and it booted fine. My only change from your setup was to use the extlinux.conf file

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default vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=usbflash 

Has your machine booted with other flash drives? Have you tried using FAT32 and syslinux instead?

[apogarte]

hello

thanks for replying

yes my computer boots from a fat32 key with slax (syslinux) and ext3 with sidux using grub and that was fine

for me trouble is going on :

i tried to do the install with a cd of lucid pupppy 5.2 using the frugal install
to usb key (ext formated) and it ended with a kernel panic... when i tested the boot (but that time the lupu_520.sfs was found....!)

i will try to restart everything from scratch with two different keys same procedure and make a comparison, i will post here a follow up

here is a copy of the key root directory after install via lucid puppy :

4,0K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 126 13 janv. 19:33 boot.msg
4,0K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 167 13 janv. 19:33 extlinux.conf
16K -r--r--r-- 1 root root 13K 13 janv. 19:32 extlinux.sys
4,0K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,2K 13 janv. 19:33 help2.msg
4,0K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,3K 13 janv. 19:33 help.msg
1,8M -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,8M 13 janv. 19:33 initrd.gz
32K -r--r--r-- 1 root root 32K 13 janv. 15:18 ldlinux.sys
20K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20K 13 janv. 19:33 logo.16
94M -rwx------ 1 root root 94M 13 janv. 19:35 lupu_520.sfs
2,2M -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,2M 13 janv. 19:32 vmlinuz

extlinux.sys was not existing on the hand-install before...
lupu_520.sfs is not the same size (uuuh ?)

thanks

[rcrsn51]

Yes, there is definitely something wrong with your first setup because extlinux.sys is missing. You install the extlinux bootloader by mounting the target partition and typing

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extlinux  -i /mnt/sdb1

[apogarte]

Yes, there is definitely something wrong with your first setup because extlinux.sys is missing. You install the extlinux bootloader by mounting the target partition and typing

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extlinux /mnt/sdb1

excuse me was'nt "extlinux --install /media/sdb1" i mean WITH install option ?
or do this have to be done after ?

[Béèm]

hello

tell me if it is ok to expand this thread with the following

The OP's question isn't the same as yours.
So normally you should have made a new thread.
This is in response to your question in the French forum how to behave in the puppy forum.

Maybe you will insult me here as well.

[rcrsn51]

My mistake. I forgot the -i above.

[Béèm]

excuse me was'nt "extlinux --install /media/sdb1" i mean WITH install option ?
or do this have to be done after ?

If you made explicitly a /media directory you use to mount your devices it is /media/sdb1.
Is this what sidux is using?

Normally puppy uses /mnt/.....