USB live wont boot - linux

[overkill22]

So i managed to boot Puppy on my Asus zenbook via disabling secure boot, disabling fast boot, disabling launch csm

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That was what I was saying to disable secure boot.
Good to see you figured out about the other stuff you may have needed to disable.
Usually it only needs secure boot disabled, but you are not having normal luck, are you?

Have you tried Xenialpup?

The visual stuff you see is usually the indication of just a bad download of the Puppy iso or a bad install to the USB.
I have had bad installs, because the USB drive file system has errors.
Had to reformat the drive partition to get the file system correctly working.
Do a new install and all was good.

It could also be the graphics driver trying to be used.

The Intel processor internal graphics have had driver issues in the past.
Xenialpup should have the latest version driver.

You have tried to boot it more than one time, just to see if it may have just been a bad bootup? Do it from a completely powered off, power back on retry of the bootup.

tried with xenial pup, nothing to do, when booting it doesn't find the OS.

however, I've tried Puppy on a windows computer and it is working great.
BUT while installing electrum I've got an error.
They changed something so now to install I have to use pip3 instead to pip2. I've installed all the necessary packaging and library using a ppa, everything was fine, but when I give the command

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pip3 install https://download.electrum.org/3.0.1/Electrum-3.0.1.tar.gz

It says something about location error.

I've searched and found a workaround on StackExchange that is to make a symlink from python3 to python3.5, but it's not working either.

With the time I spent on this I could have bought a new dedicated computer.

It would be great if I can make this electrum working on Puppy, but at this time it seems there is no hope.

[peterw]

overkill22

Still don't know why you are having trouble booting from USB. When you have tried some of my suggestions as well, I may be able to help further.

With regard to Electrum, the instructions you are using are most probably those for an Ubuntu or Debian variant. That is not the same as for Puppy. If you want to use Electrum in Puppy you may have to compile it yourself. I have looked on the Ubuntu Synaptic Software Search and Electrum does not appear there.

I tend to duel boot Puppy and another/s OS like an Ubuntu variant so that for some task I can use it with its larger collection of software and the ability to install programmes such as your Electrum package. I suggest that this may be a better course of action for you..

[bigpup]

tried with xenial pup, nothing to do, when booting it doesn't find the OS.

If it worked with another Puppy, it should at least been able to see Xenialpup and try to boot it.

electrum
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=91822

[jeff757]

overkill22
Please try the following on your live usb of xenialpup, edit isolinux.cfg and add psubdir=/name of folder where you put xenialpup i.e. psubdir=/xenialpup64-7.0.8.5-uefi before pmedia=usbflash. This is needed due to the new search routines in initrd to find puppy.sfs files faster.
I only do manual syslinux live boots with a separate folder for each puppy and use the corresponding syslinux.cfg. I put the folder name in front of boot.msg, help.msg, vmlinuz and initrd.gz. I also open boot.msg as text and put the folder name in front logo.16.
Posting from xeniapup64-7.0.8.6 after adding psubdir=/.... after getting puppy_xenial64-7.0.8.6.sfs not found.

jeff

[overkill22]

overkill22
Please try the following on your live usb of xenialpup, edit isolinux.cfg and add psubdir=/name of folder where you put xenialpup i.e. psubdir=/xenialpup64-7.0.8.5-uefi before pmedia=usbflash. This is needed due to the new search routines in initrd to find puppy.sfs files faster.
I only do manual syslinux live boots with a separate folder for each puppy and use the corresponding syslinux.cfg. I put the folder name in front of boot.msg, help.msg, vmlinuz and initrd.gz. I also open boot.msg as text and put the folder name in front logo.16.
Posting from xeniapup64-7.0.8.6 after adding psubdir=/.... after getting puppy_xenial64-7.0.8.6.sfs not found.

jeff

Sorry, I don't understand your instructions.
I changed the pmedia to usbflash (it was cd).
Then what folder are you talking about?
In the list of the file in my USB I don't have the xenialpup64-7.0.8.5-uefi, but only puppy_xenialpup64_7.0.8.6.sfs or zdrv_xenialpup64_7.0.8.6.sfs that I don't know if they are the same.

Do I have to create a special folder?
Do I have to install a different version of xenialpuppy?

[overkill22]

tried with xenial pup, nothing to do, when booting it doesn't find the OS.

If it worked with another Puppy, it should at least been able to see Xenialpup and try to boot it.

electrum
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=91822

Thank you for the link. Now Electrum is version 3.0.1 and they changed few things. I'll keep the topic as reference since it could be very useful!

[bigpup]

For booting Xenialpup.

Still have this setup in bios?

1. The secure boot was DISABLED
2. Disabled FAST BOOT
3. Enabled LAUNCH CSM

[overkill22]

For booting Xenialpup.

Still have this setup in bios?

1. The secure boot was DISABLED
2. Disabled FAST BOOT
3. Enabled LAUNCH CSM

yes, it boots but doesn't find the os

[bigpup]

Now we are back to did you do this to the Xenialpup USB install?

Look on the flash drive for the file syslinux.cfg. If it contains the clause "pmedia=cd" or something else, change it to "pmedia=usbflash".

[overkill22]

Now we are back to did you do this to the Xenialpup USB install?

Look on the flash drive for the file syslinux.cfg. If it contains the clause "pmedia=cd" or something else, change it to "pmedia=usbflash".

ok, done.

[bigpup]

So, did that work and it now boots Xenialpup?

[overkill22]

So, did that work and it now boots Xenialpup?

Ok, so I found out there was also another problem that the other day I didn't notice, there was no "boot" flag.
After I set the boot flag from gparted now, it works.
Still I have to boot in legacy mode and not UEFI. But that's not a big deal.

Now, I have to install electrum 3.0.1 that uses these dependencies:

python3-setuptools
python3-pyqt5
python3-pip