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#2 Post by rcrsn51 »

First check that the file pupxxx.sfs is actually on the device. Then try changing syslinux.cfg to PMEDIA=idehd.
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#5 Post by rcrsn51 »

Congratulations. I suspect that the problem was not with Puppy but with syslinux. According to its documentation, syslinux won't work with a FAT32 drive. However a different boot loader like GRUB would launch Puppy fine.
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#7 Post by Bruce B »

brianez21 wrote:Okay here's what was wrong.

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Then I ran mkfs.msdos /dev/hda1 (do not use vfat, Puppy doesn't like FAT32 for some reason) and reinstalled through the Universal Installer.
I don't know how you arrived at that conclusion. Puppy's scripts looks for FAT32 partitions and uses them. It has for a long time.
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