Installed 2.11 and GRUB on hard drive - have a looping error

[gfd_2]

I have an IBM T-20 laptop with 256 Mb of RAM, 11 Gig hd and a Linksys WPC11 ver4 wireless card.

I installed by:
1.) DBN in quick mode to erase the drive.
2.) Booted off FreeDOS and ran FDISK to create three partitions; a 2 Gig primary (FAT16) and 2- 4.5 GIG extended (both et3).
3.) Installed the base install of FreeDOS onto C:
4.) Booted off the Puppy 2.11 CD
5.) Installed Puppy to /dev/hda1.
6.) Installed GRUB to the MBR of unmounted /dev/hda2.
7.) Used ndiswrapper -i xxxx.inf to install my wireless card drivers.
8.) Use Setup to configure my wireless connection (ESSID, ID, Channel, etc).
9.) I was able to connect to the net with no issues and everything appeared to be working.
10.) the final test - reboot and see if GRUB would launch my hard drive install
11.) Rebooted and it looks like Puppy is loading - whoo hooo!
12.) During the boot up an error "cannot touch /tmp/bootcnt.txt read-only" appears. If I press CTRL-C to break out I get "/usr/x11rt/bin/xwin /tmp/kbdtextlayout.txt read-only file system". If I do nothing this error message will continue to scroll by and nothing else happens.
13.) I booted off the Puppy CD and the system ran fine; I just can't seem to get the hardware install to work.

Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated.

[barriew]

There is a fix for this - but that bit of the forum seems to be unavailble probably because the DNS system has not yet fully propogated the move to a new host.

Look at the Developer site http://www.puppyos.net/news/ and search back a few weeks to the 2.11 release announcement.

The bug is fixed in 2.12!

Barrie

[gfd_2]

Barrie,

Thanks for the info!!!! I'm a huge fan of the Puppy OS having gone throgh installs of Fedora 6 and Ubuntu (both of which refused to play nice with ndiswrapper for some reason) and it was driving me a little over the edge booting from the Puppy CD.

I'll be downloading the new iso tonight and installing tomorrow.

Thanks again -take care, Doug

[MU]

Bugfix for 2.11:

http://208.109.22.214/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=12601

Mark

[gfd_2]

a fix! even better! Thanks!

but I'm off for the rest of the week so I'll apply the fix tonight and build again tomorrow.

Take care - Doug

[Igo AtM]

need to define your boot drive as rw in Grub menu and should be OK it will default to r

or to be a bit more expansive
/boot/grub/menu.lst should contain your boot partition and have something of the order of

# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Puppy Luv 11-11-06 (on /dev/hda1)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 rw vga=0f80 quiet
title pole Pup 11-11-06 (on /dev/hda1)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 rw vga=0f80
# Linux bootable partition config ends

its the rw that gives the system access to the /tmp dir for boot writing
hope this helps

[gfd_2]

Life is now good here in the land of Puppy 2.12 on my T-20

I used DBN to wipe the drive then loaded the 2.12 CD and booted up, partitioned and formatted my drives, installed Puppy and GRUB - rebooted, ran ndiswrapper and setup my Linksys WPC11 ver4 card and here I am on my "new" laptop.

Time to download/ install Firefox and OpenOffice and I'll be loving life.

Thanks for the folks that have put forth the effort to make Puppy a success!