666philb, please consider adding SNS-2.3 and NW-2.1.1 to your BionicPup Updates package. Richard hi richard, i tried installing the newer packages into my running system as they would be installed by bionicpup64s update mechanism and it caused my connection to fail at next boot so i will probably h...

Funny - my Bionicpup64 desktop was similarly broken when I booted up yesterday, but there were ext4-fs errors during the text part of boot (size mismatch, directory overrun...) on loop2. The menus and task bar still worked but the desktop was grey with a lot of warning triangles. So an unmountable s...

@LateAdopter - I read the commit, it looks correct (we applied similar patches to all of our grub2 builds). I'm updating the packages as we speak and the update will be in final. I can't advise you how to non-destructively "test" grub4dos installed in PBS; I simply can't remember, but I'm...

Hello mistfire

Refind is intended to be a boot manager that can manage multiple boot loaders. But it doesn't work with bios boot loaders, on external media, on a PC.

However Refind works very well as a minimal boot loader for linux. It only takes about 1MB with the GUI and icons.

Hello ally If you want to boot using refind, there are two things required: A refind_linux.conf in the directory where the kernel and initrd are. My fatdog 8 one looks like this: "Boot with nano" "waitdev=3 savefile=direct:label:XORO:/fd8/fd64save.ext4 mergeinitrd1=label:XORO:/fd8/ini...

hello jamesbond & kirk Is there something unusual about the way cpufreq and the ondemand governor are conigured in Fatdog 810? The ondemand governor is very keen to jump to P0, more like the performance governor. The up_threshold is still the default 95, but it doesn't behave like that. I'm usin...

Anyway, there's k5.4.7 in the repo, so maybe you could give it a try. Hello SFR I think 5.4.3 is as far as AUFS gets so far. I did try the Fatdog 5.4.7, also a 5.4.7 and 5.4.12 that I built, on 810 beta. None of them would boot, and there was no previous-messages from the failed boot. So I guess th...

HWP is Intel jargon for hardware power management. With Intel processors from the past few years the clock frequency is controlled by the cpu's internal hardware and they do not necessarily follow what the external governor tells it. The frequency steps are smaller than those used externally and it ...

Hello Mike By default your G5400 will be using the intel_pstate driver. It has performance and powersave modes. The default may be sset by the BIOS settings or by the kernel configuration. It is not managed by the Puppy frequency scaling tool. You can override the default via sysfs. My intel N3150 d...

Anyway, there's k5.4.7 in the repo, so maybe you could give it a try. Hello SFR I think 5.4.3 is as far as AUFS gets so far. I did try the Fatdog 5.4.7, also a 5.4.7 and 5.4.12 that I built, on 810 beta. None of them would boot, and there was no previous-messages from the failed boot. So I guess th...

Having searched on pdftoraster to find out what is going on with linux printing, I decided to try my printer on linux for the first time in a few years. I had to modprobe lp to get the parallel port working. In the FAQ it says: If the modules are not required during boot time, don't use this paramet...

Hello jamesbond kirk et al. Thank you for this. I have it up and running on my new Athlon 3000G system. Since I am NOT going to update G4D on this hard disk I took fd64.sfs out of the initrd and put the blank kernel-modules.sfs in. That only took a minute. I booted it with a 5.4.3 kernel that I comp...

Hello jamesbond The SD card has a 3MB partition that I created in the spare space in the first erase block but is second in the partition table. I use it to boot with either G4D from the PBS or refind by EFI. The easiest solution should be to delete it and make a new partition. The problem is that g...

Hello kirk & jamesbond It looks as though there might be a fix for my problem booting fatdog with the large initrd on my new Athlon 3000G system. chenall has made a commit to G4D 0.4.6a called: "fix initrd ERR_WONT_FIT" my knowlege of C and chinese are about the same, so I don't know w...

Hello kirk & jamesbond I built a 5.4.7 kernel a couple of days ago and tested it on my new Athlon 3000G with Bionicpup64, but it didn't work.... The boot stopped at the Loading Kernel Modules... point. Since I hadn't built a kernel for six months when my old AMD system broke, I decided to wait f...

4.14 is the latest aufs_utils branch - see: https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/aufs-util/branches/stale Hello peebee could you explain a bit more please. You understand linux scripts and I don't... https://sourceforge.net/p/aufs/aufs-util/ref/master/branches/ has 4.19 and 5.0 branches. I modifie...

hello rockedge

I didn't have a problem with vercmp, but I noticed that the kernel kit fetches the wrong branch of aufs-utils (4.14).

There isn't an option in build.conf to tell it the correct branch, like you can with aufsv , so it's necessary to add the recent branches (4.19 5.0) to funcs.sh

Hello jamesbond

Yes that build of mesa works with Fatdog 800 AND Fatdog 810.

I have booted three times and run glxgears each time. Everything looks normal.

Thanks.

Fatdog 800 + mesa 18.3.6 + xf86-video-amdgpu 19.1 WILL BOOT That's three out of three boots. GLXgears scores 12,500, so it's working properly. But that can't really work. The xf86-video-amdgpu-19.1.0-x86_64-1 package is compiled for 810's xorg-server and will not work with the one in 800/803. So wh...

Hello kirk I don't understand how I did it. I downloaded the ISO from nluug, checked the MD5, because I was confused by the fact that it appeared in two locations. But when I extracted the initrd, I have ended up with the FD800 version. I will delete my irrelevant comments and start again. Sorry abo...