WakePup2 not booting..

[sgtmattbaker]

I have tried to get Puppy to boot from a CD and a USB flash drive but no avail. I have changed the ISO so that PMEDIA=none but that did not work either. I heard of Wakepup2 so I formatted a floppy as FAT and used the Barebones Puppy LiveCD (on another computer) to create a WakePup boot floppy. I told my PC to boot from it and it ran through a few lines of text and just hung at initializing something 17. Why is Puppy so incredibly hard to get to just boot?

[Bert]

Why is Puppy so incredibly hard to get to just boot?

I think I know exactly how you're feeling In the past I've had many moments of dispair and wanting to give up. Now I'm glad I didn't give up!

Puppy is not hard to boot! Just make sure not to skip a single step in the few steps needed before booting.

If you can boot the cd in the other computer, this can only mean you need to change the bios settings in your 'target computer'. ( at start-up, after memory check, hit the <delete> key, to go to the set-up, and change the booting order so, that cd is above hard disk)

USB : did you install it to the flash drive from the cd, using the Puppy Universal Installer? Or manually, from Windows or Linux?

[sgtmattbaker]

I used the Puppy CD and puppy universal installer to install to the formatted-as-FAT USB flash drive. I know how to change the order of my boot devices.

I have floppy first, then the CD/DVD drives then the hard drives. I always get the error that it cannot find the idecd boot media. Wakepup2 was used after I could not get the CD or USB flash drive to boot from mine. That did not work either.

I have an Asus P5B Deluxe/ Wi-fi AP motherboard that has a Intel P965 Express Northbridge and a Intel ICH8R Southbridge. I had to install a driver for my JMicron RAID controller to get my DVD drives working correctly in Windows so I think that things think my DVD/CD drives are SATA even though they are IDE. So maybe programs don't even know what type of drives they are so they can't find the boot disc in them.

[Sit Heel Speak]

...Asus P5B Deluxe/ Wi-fi AP motherboard...Intel P965 Express Northbridge...Intel ICH8R Southbridge...JMicron RAID controller...

Latest, greatest state-of-the-art hardware. Barebones is based on Puppy 2.00; pakt's WakePup2-02 came out with Puppy 2-alpha-7 but I'm not sure if Barebones carried that new WakePup2 or not. At any rate, if your hard disk is formatted NTFS then you shouldn't use a Puppy earlier than 2.02, which was the first in the 2 series with NTFS support. First thing I'd try, is a Puppy 2.13 live-CD. Second thing I'd try, is to boot the Puppy 2.13 live-CD making sure I'm using the very latest WakePup2, available at http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=7979 --third thing I'd try, is to manually make a frugal install of Puppy 2.13 on a USB stick and try using the (newest) WakePup2 floppy to boot that. However, to use the hard and CD-DVD drives it is possible that you might need the JMicron RAID Linux driver discussed at

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-re ... 10389.html
or
http://www.jmicron.com/Support_FAQ.html

and I don't know if this is included in the kernel driver modules set (zdrv_213.sfs) or not. Might require getting under the hood just a bit to get it to work. You can always tell the pioneers, they're the ones with the arrows in their backs. If the needed Linux driver is not in the collection you can use Pizzasgood's Edit-SFS, at
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=12112
to insert it. Getting Puppy to boot directly from a drive which is on the JMicron, might require a bit of tinkering with initrd.gz, much like how Dougal has made SCSI-disk-booting feasible (I think) with his special SCSI initrd.gz over at http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 7&start=30

--HTH, SHS

[J_Rey]

Well, there are lots of ways to boot Puppy and you've mentioned three of them, so the main question is now how would you prefer to boot Puppy?

If you want to get WakePup working, remember that it is DOS-based and so would not recognize non-FAT formatted partitions (e.g. how your hard drive probably is) and the hardware RAID controller could be incompatible also.

If you want to boot from CD that should work the best because that is mostly what Puppy is designed for. There was just discovered/reported a major problem (and workaround) with USB installs as well.

But for all of these boot problems we would need more detailed error messages to know more about why each method wouldn't continue past booting. For WakePup, just write down the error and the line(s) before it but for the other methods see the LOGLEVEL item under the General Kernel Parameters section of the boot parameters page for more. You can also read up more on PMEDIA on that page as well.