(Soved)Puppy Slacko 6.9.9.9 on usb pendrive won'boot

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(Soved)Puppy Slacko 6.9.9.9 on usb pendrive won'boot

#1 Post by nupogodi »

Hi everybody.I used unetbootin application to burn the iso of puppy slacko 5.7
on a usb pendrive formated as FAT32.I reboot my computer then by pressing F11 i enter the boot menu select to boot from pendrive and instatly appears the following error message:

This is not a bootable disk insert and press a bootable floppy and press any key to try again.

My motherbord is an Asrock 7750VM800

The content of syslinux.cfg bootloader is the following:

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default puppy
display boot.msg
prompt 1
timeout 50

F1 boot.msg
F2 help.msg
F3 help2.msg

label puppy
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=cd
Any idea would be very appreciated.
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#2 Post by bigpup »

Probably needs the boot flag set on the partition that is on the USB flash drive.

If you can get Gparted working by running it in another install of Puppy.
Have the USB flash drive plugged in, but not mounted.
Start Gparted with the USB flash drive as device selected.
Right click on the partition.
Choose manage flags
check the boot option.
Now the partition should be flagged as boot.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
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#3 Post by bigpup »

A tip about Using Unetbootin.
It does not know about the different boot options for Puppy.

On that syslinux.cfg
Change the

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pmedia=cd
to

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pmedia=usbflash
That tells the boot process you are using Puppy installed on a USB flash drive.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
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#4 Post by nupogodi »

Thank you so much for your interest.I tried the above but the problem remains.I just took a look in ubnfilel.txt file and i found that there are missing files that are not displayed there.Those files exist on the usb pendrive though.Take a look on ubnfilel.txt file please.

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boot.cat
boot.msg
help.msg
help2.msg
initrd.gz
isolinux.bin
logo.16
puppy_slacko_5.7.0.sfs
README.HTM
syslinux.cfg
vmlinuz
There are additional files on the usb that are not displayed on this file.
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#5 Post by ITSMERSH »

What of the above did you try?
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#6 Post by bigpup »

Does this computer have a UEFI bios?
If yes.
Go into the bios setup and disable secure boot and or enable legacy boot.

If you do something.
You do what?
You see what?
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#7 Post by nupogodi »

Thank you both for your response.I have tried all the above.My mobo has bios and i have activated usb legacy support but the problem remains. :(
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#8 Post by bigpup »

Then you are doing something wrong.
The install on the USB is bad.
Try a delete, re-download of the iso, and reinstall of Slacko 5.7
The USB partition is not flagged as boot.
It is a UEFI bios and secure boot is enabled.

Did you ever have any boot loader installed on the USB that may have changed the USB mbr?
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#9 Post by nupogodi »

Thank you for your interest big pup.I have verified the .iso of slacko as trusted I have legacy support enbled on bios.Flag on pendrive is set upto boot.But the problem remains.I also tried the pendrive on another computer.Unfortunately the pproblem is there.What do you mean by saying that i should instll a bootloader?
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#10 Post by cthisbear »

Are you hitting F11

http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp ... t-from-usb

"""""""

" I got USB Boot to work on Asrock P4VM890 by enabling "Legacy USB Support" from BIOS."

http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp ... win-by-usb

::::

Bios boot images

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=boot ... 00&bih=768

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#11 Post by nupogodi »

Thank you Chris for your interest.I 'll take a look at the links as soon as possible but i must mention that i tried on another computer this pendrive and the error message is exactly the same.And yes i adjusted the bios of the other computer the way it should be.I am intented to try another program equivalent to unetbootin and i 'll tell you what happend.Cheers.
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#12 Post by bigpup »

What do you mean by saying that i should instll a bootloader?
I am not saying you should install a boot loader.
I am asking if you ever did install a boot loader?
Maybe you put a different Linux OS on the USB drive and it installed a boot loader.

If the setup on the USB drive is all correct.
Slacko 5.7 is a live Puppy install.
All is there to make it boot.

Any reason you are using Slacko 5.7?
Could try a newer Puppy version.

If you can run Gparted.
Do a check of the USB and the file system on it.
Could be something wrong with it.
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#13 Post by bigpup »

I have had a USB drive that was just totally messed up and normal partition and format did not work.

Had to do this to get it back to normal.

Will have to do this from a Running Puppy.

To get the USB flash drive back to a normal partition/format condition do the following things.

To do this the USB flash drive can not be in use. Only accessed. Not booted from. Not being used to run Puppy.
In a console type this code and hit enter.
Important make sure correct drive is selected
(The code of=/dev/sdb sdb is the flash drive, yours could be sdc, sdd, etc.... adjust to match yours)

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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M count=1
This will remove all partitions, format, and data from USB flash drive.

Use Gparted to get back to normal setup.
1. Make a partition table:
GParted > Device > Create Partition Table > MS-DOS default.
2. Partition and format as you like.
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#14 Post by nupogodi »

Hi everybody i managed to solve my problem by taking the following steps:First of all i mounted the .iso file the i renamed all the .sfs files changing their version number according to the version of the slacko puppy i used.Keep this in mind because on the next step i use puppy universal installer and if i don't do that the instalation proccess stops imediately.So after renaming those files as i mentioned above i used puppy universal installer i took all the steps needed and i installed puppy on the usb stick.Before rebooting i took this last step i mounted the stick and renamed all the .sfs files by changing the version numbers according to the version of the .iso of slacko wich i downloaded.I rebooted my computer fro the usb stick and that's it puppy loaded! :D Right now i am posting from the puppy version loaded fror my usb stick.Previously i was user of slacko 6.3.2 and now i use slacko 6.9.9.9 wich i shall install on my hdd. :D

PS I am grateful to those who helped me.
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#15 Post by bigpup »

This installer will install any Puppy iso.
Yapi
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=107601
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#16 Post by bigpup »

Still wondering why unetbootin did not do a working install.
I have used it many times, however I am running it in Puppy.
Maybe something is wrong with the Windows version.
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