Bionicpup64 8.0 CE

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666philb · #706 Post by **666philb** » Tue 12 Mar 2019, 09:50

dancytron wrote:I attempted to do a remaster and while it successfully created the /mnt/home/puppylivecd directory with all of the correct stuff just like I wanted, it did not create the *.iso file. There were no errors that I could see.

I've attached a screenshot showing that there is no *.iso file where there should be and also a "readme.txt" file that outlines exactly what I was trying to do.

I am guessing that there is some package that creates the iso file that is missing???????

hi dancytron,

i just tried a remaster and it worked for me. is this bionicpup64-8.0? also are you using an old savefile from the betas? as there was an issue with remastering in older bionicpups.

dancytron · #707 Post by **dancytron** » Wed 13 Mar 2019, 02:01

666philb wrote:
dancytron wrote:I attempted to do a remaster and while it successfully created the /mnt/home/puppylivecd directory with all of the correct stuff just like I wanted, it did not create the *.iso file. There were no errors that I could see.

I've attached a screenshot showing that there is no *.iso file where there should be and also a "readme.txt" file that outlines exactly what I was trying to do.

I am guessing that there is some package that creates the iso file that is missing???????
hi dancytron,

i just tried a remaster and it worked for me. is this bionicpup64-8.0? also are you using an old savefile from the betas? as there was an issue with remastering in older bionicpups.

Okay, thanks for the quick reply. It was bionicpup64-8.0 with a new save file.

I have some ideas, but it will be a few days until I can check it again.

bigpup · #708 Post by **bigpup** » Wed 13 Mar 2019, 05:40

None of the Boot Loader install programs in Bionicpup64 8.0 will make a boot loader for uefi bios with secure boot enabled.

I did a frugal install of Bionicpup64 8.0 on an internal emmc drive.
With secure boot disabled. The uefi bios gives no option to boot from it.
With secure boot enabled. The uefi bios will see it as a bootable device, but only if there is a uefi boot loader on it.

To get a uefi boot loader installed I used the FrugalPup program.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=114340

This is what I did using FrugalPup.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 80#1021580

Lobster · #709 Post by **Lobster** » Wed 13 Mar 2019, 08:21

Very happy to be using BionicPup

Particularly like:

the Menu/Setup/Puppy Updates - good plan!
Menu/Desktop/Redshift - no glare
Quickpet - easy essentials
Gplanirity - simple games, yeah baby

I am also pleased to report that sound recording, always a nightmare setting up, was for once easy for me.

westwest · #710 Post by **westwest** » Thu 14 Mar 2019, 02:57

In the Mouse Wizard, changing any setting then clicking OK disables the touchpad, seemingly irremediably. This was not so with earlier BionicPups.

Also, no Xorg.0.log shows up when requested in PupSysInfo.

wiak · #711 Post by **wiak** » Thu 14 Mar 2019, 03:00

Please see woof-CE from github BionicPup64 earlier kernel (sha256 file at ibiblio huge kernel repo) issue here:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 06#1021706

wiak

666philb · #712 Post by **666philb** » Thu 14 Mar 2019, 11:18

wiak wrote:Please see woof-CE from github BionicPup64 earlier kernel (sha256 file at ibiblio huge kernel repo) issue here:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 06#1021706

wiak

cheers wiak ... fixed

666philb · #713 Post by **666philb** » Thu 14 Mar 2019, 11:20

Lobster wrote:

Very happy to be using BionicPup

Particularly like:
the Menu/Setup/Puppy Updates - good plan!
Menu/Desktop/Redshift - no glare
Quickpet - easy essentials
Gplanirity - simple games, yeah baby

I am also pleased to report that sound recording, always a nightmare setting up, was for once easy for me.

thanks lobster

good to see you!

666philb · #714 Post by **666philb** » Thu 14 Mar 2019, 11:47

westwest wrote:In the Mouse Wizard, changing any setting then clicking OK disables the touchpad, seemingly irremediably. This was not so with earlier BionicPups.

Also, no Xorg.0.log shows up when requested in PupSysInfo.

hi westwest,

thanks ... i've reported the mouse issue on woofce.

PupSysInfo is showing the Xorg.0.log for me, maybe check it manually /var/log/Xorg.0.log

bigpup · #715 Post by **bigpup** » Thu 14 Mar 2019, 13:34

New version of UExtract 3.34 released
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 54#1021754

Improvements and fixes.
- check the free space on destination device after extraction and issue a warning if it's used in 100% (thanks to don570)
- can extract UPXed Windows binaries
- AppRun: try to properly handle filenames with HTML % triplets, which are replaced by ROX to ASCII characters
- (un)install scripts compatibile with Fatdog build system
- various fixes and improvements
- new formats/extensions:

.fsl (same as .fossil) [fossil]
.sar & .sqlar (SQLite Archive) [sqlite3|fossil]
.zds (GZDoom Save File) [unzip|7z]

666philb · #716 Post by **666philb** » Thu 14 Mar 2019, 13:53

bigpup wrote:New version of UExtract 3.34 released
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 54#1021754
Improvements and fixes.
- check the free space on destination device after extraction and issue a warning if it's used in 100% (thanks to don570)
- can extract UPXed Windows binaries
- AppRun: try to properly handle filenames with HTML % triplets, which are replaced by ROX to ASCII characters
- (un)install scripts compatibile with Fatdog build system
- various fixes and improvements
- new formats/extensions:

.fsl (same as .fossil) [fossil]
.sar & .sqlar (SQLite Archive) [sqlite3|fossil]
.zds (GZDoom Save File) [unzip|7z]

thanks bigpup ... updated

rockedge · #717 Post by **rockedge** » Thu 14 Mar 2019, 19:29

I have a question concerning /bin/dhpcd and a problem of CPU load.

after a start or reboot of Bionic64-v8 ( and v7.9.8 ) an instance of
/bin/dhpcd, is pegging a 4 core CPU at 100%. This remains so until I kill the job and the CPU loads go to normal and everything seems to work as expected.

666philb · #718 Post by **666philb** » Thu 14 Mar 2019, 21:26

rockedge wrote:I have a question concerning /bin/dhpcd and a problem of CPU load.

after a start or reboot of Bionic64-v8 ( and v7.9.8 ) an instance of
/bin/dhpcd, is pegging a 4 core CPU at 100%. This remains so until I kill the job and the CPU loads go to normal and everything seems to work as expected.

hi rockedge,

i reckon something that you've installed has added another dhpcd as bionicpups dhpcd is in /usr/sbin

rockedge · #719 Post by **rockedge** » Thu 14 Mar 2019, 22:45

bionicpups dhpcd is in /usr/sbin

that is a good clue, and I suspected it is something installed or better yet, maybe caused by the save folder being imported from a v7.9.8

there seems to be some difference? I have 2 but they are not the same
/bin/dhpcd
/usr/sbin/dhcpcd

what would install /bin/dhpcd ? I am not sure yet

rockedge · #720 Post by **rockedge** » Thu 14 Mar 2019, 23:19

Thank you 666philb, that was a good tip and so.... after testing a bit, I deleted /bin/dhcpd and that fixed it.

matter of fact Bionic64-v8 runs very well on this machine now and is Fast

PC Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: OptiPlex 990
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10GHz
Core Count: 4
▶—— PHYSICAL MEMORY ——◀

Installed Memory: 8 GB
Maximum Memory: 32 GB
Number Of Slots: 4

Linux Kernel: 4.19.25-rt16 (x86_64)
Kernel Version: #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Wed Mar 13 18:57:00 EDT 2019
Build GCC: 7.3.0

sc0ttman · #721 Post by **sc0ttman** » Fri 15 Mar 2019, 11:51

rockedge wrote:what would install /bin/dhpcd ? I am not sure yet

Do

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pkg which /bin/dhcpd

... Pkg will tell you which package the file comes from (if any).

rockedge · #722 Post by **rockedge** » Fri 15 Mar 2019, 11:56

excellent tip sc0ttman !!

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#pkg which /bin/dhcpd
busybox
#pkg which /usr/sbin/dhcpcd
dhcpcd-6.6.2-april64
#

666philb · #723 Post by **666philb** » Fri 15 Mar 2019, 13:36

bigpup wrote:None of the Boot Loader install programs in Bionicpup64 8.0 will make a boot loader for uefi bios with secure boot enabled.

I did a frugal install of Bionicpup64 8.0 on an internal emmc drive.
With secure boot disabled. The uefi bios gives no option to boot from it.
With secure boot enabled. The uefi bios will see it as a bootable device, but only if there is a uefi boot loader on it.

To get a uefi boot loader installed I used the FrugalPup program.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=114340

This is what I did using FrugalPup.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 80#1021580

hi bigpup,

the bootflash did work for me if i didn't add legacy suport at the end. but still even though the stick booted with uefi enabled it wouldn't boot if it was disabled. so i've added gyros stickpup as the default usb installer. at the moment i've hidden the frugal installer so as not to confuse new users. it can be turned on in the menu manager.

bigpup · #724 Post by **bigpup** » Fri 15 Mar 2019, 17:33

I do not think all UEFI bios are made the same.
They all seem to understand secure boot enabled or disabled the same way.
Well, maybe!

Installing to a USB was not a big issue for me.
However, to be able to even get the bios to offer the USB as a bootable device, secure boot had to be disabled or legacy boot enabled.

I wanted to install Bionicpup64 8.0 frugal to the internal drive.
Boot only using that install.
On my computer.
The internal drive is only offered as a boot device, when secure boot is enabled and legacy boot is disabled.

To get the internal drive to boot normally.
It had to have a boot loader made to work with UEFI normal setup. Secure boot enabled and legacy boot disabled.

I guess that boot loader needs to be Grub2.

The Boot loader that FrugalPup program installed for UEFI worked with no problems. I think it is Grub2.

Side note:
I did get the internal drive install of Bionicpup64 8.0 to boot using Grub4dos boot loader.
But Grub4dos boot loader was on a USB drive.
Legacy boot was enabled in the UEFI bios.
It first booted to the USB drive.
Grub4dos menu pops up.
Then menu entry for the install on the internal drive is selected.
It boots it to the desktop and runs from the internal drive.

I guess it depends on the UEFI bios in the computer.
Another computer does not have legacy boot option.
Only sees a USB device, as a bootable device, if secure boot is disabled.

LateAdopter · #725 Post by **LateAdopter** » Fri 15 Mar 2019, 18:03

Hello bigpup
A bit of elaboration...
In my bios there are two "legacy" items that affect booting:

Legacy USB support is in the normal hardware configuration pages. I think that defines whether you can access an MBR partitioned device.

CSM is in the boot options menu. I think that defines whether you can start a real mode bootloader like grub4dos

The f11 boot menu offers to boot removable media either from the MBR or from EFI in a partition, without checking that a bootable MBR or EFI is present.

An SSD connected via USB doesn't count as removable media.

I don't have a secure boot operating system, so I haven't played with that.

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