Thanks for the tutorial, but how would you do this on a full hard drive install (no initrd)? The modules and dependencies seem to be there already but I can't seem to find a good spot to load fbcon; as soon as "starting..." comes up on the console an undefined resolution error appears (usi...

have any of you guys tried this? http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=352836#352836 Much easier than all this stuffing around, perhaps. Tried using that to mount devx_431 under a fresh hard drive install of puppy 4.3.1. It mounted successfully but upon reboot (with devx still 'installed...

Sorry about not replying, guess that what happens when email notifications are turned off :P The kernel images are here Kernels The zip file contains 2 files: Kernel.2x00 is a version with MEM=256M hardcoded into the kernel command line kernel.nomemlim has no such limitation, rename to kernel.2x00 t...

on 4.2 its located in pup_420.sfs ---> /lib/modules/2.6.25.16 2.14X its located in pup_214R.sfs---> /lib/modules/2.6.18.1, So I'm thinking you have it in the wrong container, you might want to find it and move it ttuuxxx In my case /lib/modules is actually a file containing the names of a few utili...

Just spent most of the night getting growler's version of AMP running on the N2200, this box is now a webserver! here is the version I used. Anyway, running the pet straight out under X crashed the system due to the dreaded memory corruption errors I keep on getting. I had to extract the contents of...

- When booting X it always gives a 'cannot find /lib/modules/2.6.24.7/modules.dep' error, not that it stops it from starting but it erks me that its there. Hi excellent solo-work, great reading, oh ya to fix your modules dep error open a prompt and type # depmod -a that will build you a new /lib/mo...

Ok, having compiled the kernel I thought I'd share some experiences I've had with the distro on my N2200. - I've given up trying to run X full time on this box, the Geode FB driver is experimental in the 2.6.24.7 kernel, along with DMA disabled this makes for incredibly long load times. That said I ...

Feeling a bit ambitious I decided to go on and compile a pristine 2.6.24.7 kernel for Puppy 4.2.1 Patches used: - N2200 VGA fix as explained around the middle here - N2200 force PIO as explained here - unionfs 2.5.2 for 2.6.24.7 here - squashfs 3.3 for kernel 2.6.24 here - deny write access and supe...

Ok, now I have another problem. I'm now trying to put Puppy 4.2.1 retro on this machine using the above kernel. Still using der_odenwaelder's config file but changed most of the filesystems to be modularized as per the original puppy 4.2.1 kernel config. As such initrd was repacked with the new modu...

Thanks for all the help guys

Managed to get der_odenwaelder's version booting with my own kernel, turned out that I didn't have initrd compiled in. I used the one off the puppy 4.0 live-cd and that got it all going.

Taking a look at this again after a few weeks, obviously the error is caused by parameters not being passed to the kernel but the N2200 has an embedded boot loader whose parameters cannot be altered. Is there any way to hard-code kernel parameters during compiling? I'm using the pre-patched 2.6.21.7...

Hi there, I'm trying to get puppy 4.2.1 running on an IBM N2200 Thin client. System specs can be found here : Thing that aren't mentioned: 1 SD ram slot, can be upgraded to 256 MB. CF card based storage via a built-in IDE-CF adaptor. No Real time clock. DMA on the CS5530 is a no go, PIO 4 is the bes...