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It's funny, I had been away from my Fatdog 710 machine for about 3 or 4 months due to other work on different machines and I noticed two things:
1) I was missing my wireless dongle (this means I borrowed it for another machine)

and
2) It will not boot unless I choose NOT to use a savefile, in which case it boots fine.

3) I found a dongle laying on my desk from another computer and put it in so I have wireless now.

But the big question is, how can I get my read/write OS back again. Currently, I cannot write to the hard drive sda1. But I noticed something by comparing to another machine's fd64save.ext4:

The permissions on the machine that works are: Read for Owner Group and World, and Write for Owner, nothing for Exec. On the machine where the savefile will not load it is: Read Owner Group and Exec Owner Group, with nothing able to Write. Unfortunately, I cannot write so if I change the flag it won't persist.

When it boots, it mentions something about aufs/new_root or new root

I don't really know what to do - I could try deleting the savefile - is that a good idea and start over?

I tried redoing the savefile a couple times but it didn't work.

Any ideas appreciated for how to get my hard-drive reading and writing properly again.

Thanks.

Could you print your menu.lst file listing for fatdog,
especially the savefile=......... portion.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/fa ... tions.html

There is a certain depth of folders that fatdog will dig in to find the savefile.

You could also try ---> savefile=ask
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Something I do in an emergency --->
I run grub4dos by shinobar (available in most puppies)
and it makes a new menu.lst
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I boot that Fatdog machine either of two ways - either off of a CD or off of a flash stick. I don't have a menu.lst that I'm aware of. At least I can't yet find one. I'll keep looking for it.

don570 wrote:Could you print your menu.lst file listing for fatdog,
especially the savefile=......... portion.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/fa ... tions.html

There is a certain depth of folders that fatdog will dig in to find the savefile.

You could also try ---> savefile=ask
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Something I do in an emergency --->
I run grub4dos by shinobar (available in most puppies)
and it makes a new menu.lst
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Can I set it to longer than 9s? I guess I can hit escape to get a prompt but it crashed - I'll try again.

At the prompt.

I need to boot and find any savefiles I have and somehow figure out how to issue:

savefile=local:path

A simple example would help so I know I have the syntax.

But I wonder if I go to the prompt are there a bunch of other things that need to be on the command line? It complained that it couldn't find the kernel.

So would savefile=local:sda1/fd64save.ext4 work at the command prompt?

I have booted the machine without the savefile currently.

PappyPuppy wrote:savefile=local:path

A simple example would help so I know I have the syntax.

I am using Hope that helps.

so it's /dev/sda1/fd64save
now.

It's booting off the flash now. OIt takes 5 minutes.

I have no idea why it won't boot.

Is there a log I could post?

PappyPuppy wrote:so it's /dev/sda1/fd64save
now.

Why not

I'll post when I try.