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dvw86 · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 636 Location: Washington State

I would like to use Grub to boot Puppy off of a vfat partition and have it load into RAM, much like the "option 1 HD install" or the "install to USB" with CF modifications. Grub is already installed on the MBR. Here are the problems that I am having. The install to USB script works but kernel panics half way through booting as mentioned here. The option 1 HD install requires you to insert a floppy and I do not have a floppy drive. Does anybody have any ideas?

Guest · Guest

assuming the vfat partition is c (the first partition on the first drive)

copy vmlinuz and image.gz to, say, c:\puppy-1.0.4 (keeps it easy to keep track of things)

copy usr_cram.fs to the root of c:

now to your grub config

dvw86 · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 636 Location: Washington State

That works! Thanks!! Puppy loads into RAM and is FAST. Since I do not have a CD drive on this computer it makes for a great way of installing and upgrading Puppy. Now I can store all my large files (pictures, MP3s, possibly large applications...) on the 115GB ext2 partition and still play with Puppy on the 3GB vfat partition. I think I prefer having Puppy load into RAM verses the option 2 HD install. Thanks again.

Bancobusto · Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 168 Location: Vancouver Island

Bladehunter, that's awesome Cool

I've wondered if that was possible, but for some reason just assumed that it wasn't.

That's gonna be fun -

Very Happy

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4636 Location: Manila

It's nice to know that booting with Grub works perfectly in VFAT/MSDOS (which I haven't tried yet).

And I fully agree with you that this is