Sorry Rcrsn I used to have the could not find pup-431.sfs but then I put the boxpup folder in boot and got error 15: file not found so I moved the boxpup folder back and changed it ext3 and IT WORKED! :D Thank-you. I guess the problem was simply that it was ext4 not ext3. Thank-you all for your input!

Is the boxpup folder suppose to be in the boot folder that Grub bootloader created? If so then why am I getting error 15: file not found when grub tries to boot it? Is there someting wrong with my menu.lst? Here is what is in it, title BoxPup 4.3.1 (on /dev/sda2) root (hd0,1) kernel /boxpup/vmlinuz ...

Tote wrote:Hi Phabbits, I don't use Grub, I use Grub4dos, so I can't help you with that, but on your menu list you're showing Boxpup 4.13, is that right, or should it be 4.3.1.?

Yes it is suppose to be 4.3.1 sorry about that.

:D Thanks for the replies! And sorry I have should have entered this info on the first post. I first installed Opensuse on the HDD hoping it would boot, but then I figured out my laptop could not boot from USB and that Opensuse would not of worked to well anyway because the laptop is so old. So I de...

Hello everyone. I am attempting to install BoxPup 4.3.1 on an old laptop, the laptop has no cd rom and can't boot from usb. I have a ide to usb adapter which I am using to connect the laptop's internal hdd to another desktop pc witch I am booting from the livecd. I was able to partition the hdd with...

kernel /boxpup/vmlinuz pmedia=idehd psubdir=boxpup nosmp In your menu.lst file are these on two separate lines? It should be kernel /boxpup/vmlinuz pmedia=idehd psubdir=boxpup nosmp Does your hard drive have two partitions? And is Boxpup in the second one? Yes the HDD has two partitons. First one i...

mill0001 wrote:Hi, in your 1st post you said "looked for PUP-431.shs and could not find it". If the pup file is named PUP-431.shs it is not correct. Rename that to pup-431.sfs and you should be good to go.

No, sadly it is pup-431.sfs

I placed the puppy files just on the hdd if that makes sense. Inside the folder "boxpup" And here is what the menu.lst file looks like # GRUB configuration file '/boot/grub/menu.lst'. # generated by 'grubconfig'. Fri Feb 22 15:50:43 2013 # # The backup copy of the MBR for drive '/dev/sda' ...

Hello everyone I am a newbie here. I am attempting to install BoxPup 4.3.1 on an old laptop, the laptop has no cd rom and can't boot from usb. I have a ide to usb adapter which I am using to connect the laptop's internal hdd to another desktop pc. I was able to partition the hdd with GParted and I p...