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rolfm · Joined: 13 Jul 2010 Posts: 4

i did the embed_sfs in Puppy /tmp

omf · Joined: 30 Jul 2010 Posts: 2

rolfm · Joined: 13 Jul 2010 Posts: 4

sorry omf, i can't help you with that

fred777 · Joined: 08 Jan 2011 Posts: 4

Hi there,

the nice embed_sfs.sh script from this post: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=426299&search_id=1059481267#426299 does not work anymore for puppy 5.2.
It did work for versions 5.0.1 and 5.1. Please help.

thanks,
fred

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 1573 Location: The Blue Marble

fred,

The embed.sh script doesn't do anything other than unpack the initrd.gz, put the puppy.sfs into it, and pack it back.

The actual magic that makes it work (puppy reads the SFS inside initrd.gz instead of searching from disk or elsewhere) is inside puppy initialisation script itself. This originally came from Barry, in puppy 4.x days, and is shared by many many other puplets and derivatives (so that most of them are netboot capable as well).

Now, apparently enough things have changed in between Lupu 5.1 days and Lupu 5.2 that breaks this functionality. You can try a recent puppy (e.g wary 5.0) and see whether it works. If it does work, then the original code is still there and something broke in Lupu 5.2 when it was developed. If this is the case, you can report this to Lupu 5.2 support forum and hope for a fix.

If wary 5.0 itself doesn't do netboot anymore, then the code is broken "at the source", and you should report this to Barry, again, hoping for a fix.

EDIT: Wary 5.0 also has this problem, so I guess Lupu 5.2 just "inherits" the same problem. I've reported this to Wary 5.0 bug report thread, let's hope it get Barry's ear.

Alternatively, if you're interested, you can unpack initrd.gz and look at the file called "init", and go from there ...

cheers!

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 1573 Location: The Blue Marble

fred,

I've reported the bug and the workaround here: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=486411#486411.
Until this is fixed, you can pass append PDEV1=rootfs in your pxelinux config file. Lupu 5.2 will boot just fine Very Happy

cheers!

fred777 · Joined: 08 Jan 2011 Posts: 4

Hello jamesbond,

great thank you. By looking at init, I could not do much more than finding the echo and retry lines, but the fix from your last post looks astounding easy, I will try that now.

merci,
fred

fred777 · Joined: 08 Jan 2011 Posts: 4

Hello jamesbond,

that really did the trick. I would not have found this solution in init. Thanks a lot,

regards,
fred

mhanifpriatama · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 59

I did another tricks. Use initrd.gz that inside lupu503.iso, unpack it to a directory, put lupu_520.sfs to that directory, rename it to lupu-503.sfs, than pack the directory. It's done with me.

sebus · Joined: 20 Jan 2012 Posts: 62