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Loading kernel drivers needed to access disk drives... done
Searching for Puppy files in computer disk drives...
pup_412.sfs not found. Dropping out to initial-ramdisk console...
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
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The motherboard on the new box is an Asus P8H6-MX R2.0 dual core job with a 500gb HD and 4gbof RAM with the new style UEFI BIOS. This is where the solution to Puppy-412 not detecting the drives lay. So here is the UEFI BIOS settings to allow Puppy-412 and Puppy-431 to see the drives . . .
In the ‘Advanced’ section of the BIOS there is a menu called ‘SATA configuration’ selecting this and then from the sub-menu select ‘SATA mode selection’ which has three options; IDE (the default), AHCI and disabled.
Changing the ‘SATA mode selection’ from IDE to AHCI solved the problem and I now have access as normal on Puppy-412 to the HD and DVD/CD drive. Sorted!
This may help Puppy Users who want to run older versions of Puppy on newer hardware with the newer style UEFI BIOS.
There is still one problem remaining, no sound! which I have been unable to resolve (yet). The sound card is a VIA VT1708S. Alsa wizard is unable to detect any sound cards although I get sound on Wary-512 and on Wary’s Alsa Wizard the hardware shows as;
hda-intel - Intel Corporation 6 series chipset family high definition audio.
So if anyone has any ideas on how to resolve this I would be very grateful. I have tried various solutions from the forum to no avail. The soultion that I thought had promise is Alsa 1.0.22.1 Driver Updates but the file(s) I need are no longer available. I asked Mr Google if could find them but he was unable to help.
Finally, why is he running Puppy-412 on new hardwear when there is more suitable Puppies. Well, I am responsible for the 412collection.co.uk web site and it’s pretty important that I am able to use Puppy-412 for testing etc, and it just so happens that Puppy-412 is my favorite version of Puppy Linux.