Direct boot from hard drive?
Re: Direct boot from hard drive?
We set up another older computer with Suse 9.0 on one partiition booting with Grub. Then we installed Puppy 1.0.1 on the other partition (Puppy 1.0.2 won't boot on this computer either). To install we had to change hda3 filetype to something weird that Puppy wouldn't recognize using fdisk in Puppy as described in the install to hard drive script. The reason for this is that otherwise the Puppy live CD would use this partition and we couldn't install to it. Then we changed it back to ext2 and installed to it. Then we copied vmlinuz from the CD to / in Puppy & added Puppy to the Suse boot menu booting /vmlinuz on hda3. Now we can boot Puppy without using the floppy.
Regarding the older computers like the 1996 Dell Optiplex GMT 5166, our main concern is that they not get left behind by Puppy Linux. Not only does it keep these well built older computers functional but keeps them from ending up in landfills, etc. Apparently it is fairly easy to do the acpi=off or whatever so that we could install Puppy 1.0.2. We are still looking for a way to perhaps modify the boot floppy so we could install Puppy 1.0.2 now. The latest DSL installs on this computer no problem but we like Puppy better. Hopefully Puppy 1.0.3 will work on this computer.
Regarding the older computers like the 1996 Dell Optiplex GMT 5166, our main concern is that they not get left behind by Puppy Linux. Not only does it keep these well built older computers functional but keeps them from ending up in landfills, etc. Apparently it is fairly easy to do the acpi=off or whatever so that we could install Puppy 1.0.2. We are still looking for a way to perhaps modify the boot floppy so we could install Puppy 1.0.2 now. The latest DSL installs on this computer no problem but we like Puppy better. Hopefully Puppy 1.0.3 will work on this computer.