Problem booting 2.0.0 from HD

[hgpuke]

This is relevant to Puppy 2.0.0:
I used this from a CD and it worked beautifully. Most importantly I got my wireless card (Belkin, based on broadcom chipset) to work!

So I installed to HD using puppyinstaller (or whatever it is called) and selected all the default options. There is only one data-partition on the harddisk and it is formatted for reiserfs.

Then I rebooted, but the kernel panicked! These are the last few lines on the screen:

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VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filsystem) readonly
Freeing unused kernel memory: 168k freed
init: applet not found
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

Is this a known problem?
Is there something that I can do about it?
I would REALLY like to install Puppy to harddisk.
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H-G

[sunburnt]

hgpuke; You could try what's called a "simple HD install" or "poor mans install".
You just copy the 3 Puppy files from CD to / on the HD, & setup a boot loader to run it.
The 3 files are: vmlinuz, initrd.gz, pup_003.sfs

[hgpuke]

OK, I will try to do that, but I don't know how to install a boot-loader. Can you tell me? (Or could I use the boot-loader that was set up for me when I did the "rich-mans" install?)

[sunburnt]

I'm not sure what boot loader Puppy 2 uses (probably Grub), look at the wiki pages about the Grub loader.

Maybe someone with more Puppy 2 knowhow than me could help hgpuke?

[kirk]

Puppy 2.01 works a lot better for full harddrive installs. In 2.00 I had xorg problems and usb problems, all fixed in 2.01. Get 2.01. Here's part of my /boot/grub/menu.lst , hope it helps. I'm using the frugal install right now.

# End GRUB global section
# Other bootable partition config begins
title Windows (on /dev/hda1)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
# Other bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
# title Linux (on /dev/hda7)
# root (hd0,6)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Puppy 2.01 frug (on /dev/hda9)
rootnoverify(hd0,8)
kernel (hd0,8)/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 PMEDIA=idehd
initrd (hd0,8)/initrd.gz
# Linux bootable partition config ends

[kirk]

Sorry, the faces above are really 8)