pup_400.sfs not found.Dropping out to initial-ramdisk consol

[ameyjah]

I am getting following error while trying to boot into puppy (macpup dingo)

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pup_400.sfs not found. Dropping out to initial-ramdisk console...
/bin/sh: can't access tty: job control turned off 

That file is present on my cd rom. I have read solution somewhere that we have to chage boot option. But I dont know the exact solution and please tell me where to apply the boot option code

At boot choice, I am getting following boot option

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root=/dev/ram0 pmedia=idecd

I have tried following code with no luck

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 root=/dev/ram0 pmedia=idecd ide=nodma 

please tell me the exact solution

[Bruce B]

For all I know macpup could be different. But 4.00 didn't use the root=/dev/ram0 option. In its place was nothing, simply eliminated.

For a frugal install, I think something like this would work, if installed on hd2,0 and in a directory called macpup

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title Macpup Dingo (hd2,0) frugal
 rootnoverify (hd2,0)
 kernel /macpup/vmlinuz pmedia=idehd psubdir=macpup layerfs=aufs 
 initrd /macpup/initrd.gz  

[ameyjah]

man I dont want frugal install, I need to install puppy in normal way.

Can you tell me any other solution to this problem

[Béèm]

From which device do you boot?

[ameyjah]

bootable puppy cd

[Béèm]

So you mean a macpup CD.
Is this your first boot or did you boot successfully earlier and do you have a pup_save (or what ever it's called in macpup)

In fact the people who develop derivatives have a separate forum for their product.

[MU]

there might be a timining problem with some drivers.
When you are dropped to the ramdisk console, please type:

. /init

Important is the dot followed by a space.
Mark

[ameyjah]

yeah for the first time I am using Macpup, but I do have another distro (ubuntu) installed. And its my first boot , so i dont have any save file.

let me show you the output of . /init

[ameyjah]

if i press .\ init at # prompt then it again restarts the booting process and noting happens

[MU]

. /init

not
.\ init

Important:
dot space slash init

Mark

[jenciso]

Hi

I've tried several boot options, but still can't pass this issue.

I'm starting up from puppy410 live-cd (burned from puppy-4.1-k2.6.25.16-seamonkey.iso) which actually works fine as livecd on another computer (PIII HP OmnibookXE2).
After booting bios, ask for kernel options (tried everything I think), it goes:

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loads kernel drivers need to access disk drives... done
Searching for Puppy files in computer disk drives...[color=red]pup410.sfs not found. Dropping out to initial-ramdisk console...[/color]
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
#

I suppose that if I set puppy pfix=ram it shouldn't go looking for Puppy files in disk...(?) Specially it's just formatted and empty.

I've tried this

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. /init

but it just starts over...

any idea??????

thanks
/javier[/code]

I'v found this thread to, but won't work:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 643#253643

[Fossil]

Pentium-S/133/32RAM

rcrsn51 has already answered your question, here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 643#253643
Add more RAM and a swap partition.
(please read)

[Béèm]

Jenciso, please read carefully.

It's ./init not . /init

[jenciso]

Jenciso, please read carefully.

It's ./init not . /init

Dear Béèm... I'll try not to shout. I'll answer with a whisper quoting Mark:

. /init

not
.\ init

Important:
dot space slash init

Mark

I've tried your alternative too... same thing.

Fossil and rcrsn51
I recon it's a very tiny Ram... BUT is this the issue? I can imagine that if Puppy starts to with a "how much ram is installed"-check, then it whould say: "Oh, no... I can't make it with your 32 mb!" or something like this.. no?

Sorry if I sound sarcastic, just trying to make some sense here:
It's telling me that it can't find this file.
I'm telling it should not try to find it (pfix=ram)
It's an old machine (that's why I'm not installing Vista on it I'm going for Puppy)
I've making half through an Ubuntu 5.10 install (before I got out of ram) but it did make a partition and a swap on the disk.

SO, returning to my question: if I figure out how to get more ram to this old machine, is this problem resolved with that?

gracias
/javier
sorry my bad English
(and thank you for answering!)

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[renatogui]

javier,

I am trying to boot from usbflash starting from a floppy using wakepup2.
There is no usb boot option in setup. That is why I am using floppy.
I am having exactly the same kernel message about not finding pup_410.sfs (my derivative is NOP 4.10 r1).

I have 256MB ram. So memory is not your problem.
My english is worse than yours.

renato

[Béèm]

jenciso,
I inversed indeed the two annotations. It's the other way round.
I just took a bigger font as with the normal font it wasn't very clear to see, at least for me and maybe others. That's not shouting.