I use Xenial 7.5 to control my computer's boot selection menu.

I wish to add a new boot menu option.

Where is the equivalent of the old MENU.TXT file so I can make this update?

thank you.

==> It's MENU.LST, not MENU.TXT, and it's in directory /initrd/mnt/dev_save

Thanks.

Wary is older but also should be a good bet to work -- http://puppylinux.org/main/Long-Term-Su ... yPuppy.htm

I got that going on my Pentium 4 first, and now I'm going to test a few others to see what else might work.

Good luck.

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Which Puppy is best for an old Pentium 4 with 1 G memory? That is also very mainstream and standard?

Thank you.

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Thanks for the replies, problem solved. Cheers.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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