Puppy multi-boot live usb images

[icake]

link to Simplified Chinese version 连接到简体中文版: http://www.minilinux.net/node/3383
link to Traditional Chinese version 連接到

[eric52]

Wow! Great! My in-laws D&L Moy are going to love this. Thanks - Eric

[Pelo]

This idea of ready multiboot usb is a nice one.
Bravo. Bookmarked

[Ghost Dog]

Thanks for this.

I followed your instructions and dd'ed the image to a usb stick. However, neither the included Vivid or Unicorn finished loading, they both froze at "loading modules".

On my other laptop it isn't recognized as a boot device at all.

Any ideas?

[icake]

Thanks for reporting the problem of both vivid and unicorn were frozen during boot and stopped at loading the module stage. From your report, my observations are:

1. the initial booting process was successful
2. the Puppy systems were unable to finish booting and frozen at loading module stage

During my other tests for running Puppy on other computers, system frozen at loading module stage is one of the major causes for failure to run Puppy. I have not found a solution to overcome this type of failures and my established reaction when facing such a situation is try using other Puppy systems for the machine.

Therefore may I suggest to try replacing both vivid and unicorn with other Puppy systems to boot your machine. You can try Precise, Slacko, fatdog64, simplicity etc. If your machine have a cd rom, try booting Puppy using a live Puppy cd to see whether your machine can run Puppy.

To replace Puppy from the bootable usb, just replace the files inside the folders "vivid-6.5_noPAE" or "unicorn-6.0" with similar files from other Puppy systems. You can find more information about this from my earlier message (under section II 2 b) here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=102158

Please also keep us informed about your findings.

Ref: you 2nd question:

On my other laptop it isn't recognized as a boot device at all.

1. what is the make and model of the laptop?
2. have you check md5sum?

[mavrothal]

Macs are usually hang because of some driver issue. Video driver most commonly.
From the About this Mac >System info, find your video driver card and blacklist it in the kernel command line adding "modprobe.blacklist=<driver>". Usually the "nouveau" driver is the big offender so if you have an nVidia card definitely try "modprobe.blacklist=nouveau"

[Ghost Dog]

Hi,

As a test, I downloaded Quirky Unicorn and burned it to a cd. It booted on both computers, no problem.

I checked the md5sum on the file (ub_fx_en_01.img) and it matches.

So, can anyone verify that this package actually works with efi boot?

Cheers

[photor]

good. marked.

[icake]

Pls see below for new linkage (old ones no longer work)
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=107937

[Steedezz]

Thanks icake!
ub_sm_sc_01.img
vivid
Flash_player install
http://pan.baidu.com/s/1gePGDft

[Insomniacno1]

Hi, good idea and nice work - but, the size is not enough for adding more distributions as there are only 73.8MB free after burning the .img to the usb stick.

I were looking at adding FatDog64 702 to it and ran into the space problem, then tried using gparted to expand(32GB USB stick), but Gparted crashes when trying on this stick - work fine with anything else. Anyone else had this?

So I figured I could just copy the files to another 32GB Fat32 formatted USB stick with boot flag, and add the FatDog64 files. Will that work?

Well FatDog64 don't use initrd.gz only initrd and vmlinuz. Should I just rename the initrd to initrd.gz or leave out the .gz from grub.cfg?

I added bootia32.efi to the EFI/BOOT folder - the bootia32.efi is from ubuntu 16.04 LTS - could that be a problem?


Hope to hear from you soon:)

JBJ

[icake]

I belief if you want to enlarge the space on the multiboot usb to add more puppy systems, you need to use gpart or equivalent. Just copying files might not work.

Fatdog has its own bootable system and procedures. You may want to start from it and adding more puppy systems to the Fatdog usb instead.

[Steedezz]

Thanks icake!

ub_sm_sc_01.img
vivid

1 Flash_player NEW libflashplayer.so
http://pan.baidu.com/s/1gePGDft

Code: Select all

cp /mnt/.../libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

2 Wine1.3.13 (SketchUp6 runs ok)
https://pan.baidu.com/s/1gfofIOb

Code: Select all

wine /mnt/.../su6/SketchUp.exe