Well I tried to disable the HD with the bios setting and this time it worked. Go figure! What I ended up with is a dual boot with Ubuntu and Frugal install of Puppy. This was the only way Puppy would load cleanly. Not sure why but it works. Graphics was an issue but went into setup and removed the d...

rcrsn51, Noticed that yesterday and had the same thoughts. I have another machine (an old HP) that boots fine so I watched the bootup and realized that was an issue. Ubuntu was on this machine but wanted to have Puppy so it was similar to the other machine. I do have another hard drive installed but...

Sorry guess the info would help. Anyway this is the last screen I get. Precise Puppy Linux Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae [i686 arch] Scott-Dimension-8300 login: root (automatic login) last login: Mon Feb 18 18:00:08 cst on tty1 Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-generic-pae i686) 0 packages c...

As I am learning and ones that have these machines can tell you, Dell has some strange quirks with the bios on the 8300 machines. I have installed 5.4.3 (full) on a machine. I ran grub4dos and everything seemed fine except some graphic issues. I removed the cd and then the machine will not boot back...