Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[Mark S.]

I was told I should repost here.

Booting Puppy Wary 5.3. When I tell it to shut down, it goes through the steps and saves the session, but then reboots the screen.

This is booting off a USB flashdrive on an Acer Aspire netbook.

The flashdrive was originally set up on a desktop computer ... in case the way it was set up makes a difference.

The other threads I've seen on this topic never seem to have gotten a firm answer. But they were using older equipment so perhaps were ignored. This isn't ancient equipment.

The flash is partitioned in 2 parts. The first part is formatted with ext2, and that is where puppy lives and saves its data. The other partition has vfat32 so the drive can exchange data between puppy and windows.

One thread mentioned changing menu.lst. Searched for menu.lst but didn't find it. Does puppy on a stick even use grub?

During shutdown, I spotted this error:

EXT2-FS ERROR (device SDB1) : ext2_lookup deleted inode referenced: 21

repeated twice.

Happens every time I attempt shut down.

The busybox poweroff kludge works. Seems like if it works then it should be possible to make a script that will do it automatically.

Thanks,
Mark

[rjbrewer]

Flash drives will boot fine using fat partitions instead of ext.

Give "Bootflash" a try and see if it works better.

[Mark S.]

I don't have any problem booting. My problem is unbooting. (Debooting?)

[rjbrewer]

[Mark S.]

Then why, oh why, did the Puppy install give me this song and dance about how much better things would be if I ran it from an EXT2 or EXT3 partition? Now it turns out that just the opposite is true?

Thanks,
Mark

[rjbrewer]

[Mark S.]

What is bootflash, and will I need to start over and reformat the flash again?

My first ever puppy stick was formatted with vfat. It still runs and boots fine on a no-name 2G stick. Now its so old that Firefox is telling me that I shouldn't be using it ... so time to upgrade. Thought I would do it "right" this time - hah!

Edit: How is bootflash different from the universal installer? Which is what I used the first time.

Also, if I have to start over, is there some way to test various mbr's without going through all the locale set up stages?

Thanks again,
Mark

[Mark S.]

After the bootflash you still end up needing the universal installer, unless you happened to have a copy of the iso on the flashdrive. But since I'm already booting from the CD ... confusing.

And its the universal installer reminding me, once again, that I really ought to use EXT2 or EXT3. Threatens that using VFat will result in a Frugal install, but doesn't explain what that it is.

Mark

[greengeek]

[Mark S.]

[rjbrewer]

[Karl Godt]

[Mark S.]

[Karl Godt]

In this case you need to open the racy-save-file.3fs and delete the hidden "*.wh.*" files inside of it . These are blocking things (ie writing to a file) .

Then umount it again and run fsck onto the racy-save-file.3fs ( and on the partition) .

[rjbrewer]