Hi Mike, thanks for that trick with urxvt! works like a charm. I have figured out a way to map alternate keys. the command reads: exec:echo X >/sys/class/backlight/radeon_bl0/brightness and binds well to keys which are letters but not numbers. I have tried alt+1 before, and it didn't work. remapped ...

The fn key that should control brightness doesn't work out of the box on my lappy with 6.3.0 slacko 64bit on it. this command works like a charm in urxvt terminal: echo X >/sys/class/backlight/radeon_bl0/brightness but how do I modify this urxvt command so that I can bind it to a key as a shortcut? ...

Hello friends,

sheldon, your suggestion to install grub manually using terminal and commands
grub
root (hd0,2)
setup (hd0)

worked!!! SOLVED.

thanks a bunch. I don't see why the standard instaler failed to overwrite MBR. ANyhoo, thank you all for help.

Nope.

Of course in order to isolate the problem I tried with both disks separately, one at a time. Same damn thing.

any other ideas?

Hello friends,

I have tried all your suggestions to no avail. Both Grub and Grub4dos report they installed correctly, but the PC always reports the NTLDR missing upon boot.

Maybe some BIOS setting?

thanks for help

Hello there, this isn't really a puppy-problem, but I've googled for an hour and couldn't solve. Here's the deal: the PC is a 400MHz CPU with ~300MB RAM and two WD harddisks (7 and 13GB). Booting off live CD is OK, gparted lets me format the drives, set boot flags and I can install puppy (antiXmepis...

Hello there,
having the above described problem, too. Running lupu 5.25 off a flashdisk. Screen goes blank after I hit poweroff, no prompt to save changes to usb, which is pretty frustrating (setting up wireless all over again, downloading browser...)

humbly hoping for solution