Booting problems on a ASUS R2H UMPC

[ltorgo]

I've downloaded Puppy 2.15CE-Final and burned a CD with it. I've tried the CD on two PC's and everything went smoothly. Nice work!

Now I'm trying to do the same on my ASUS R2H UMPC, as it is a slow machine and Win XP simpy crawls on it, and thus I though Puppy could be a good alternative.

I should add that I already tried other distros (Mint Linux 2.2, Xubuntu 7.04 and DSL-n) on this machine and all of them booted nicely. However, all of them have some minus on the feature side and I would like to try Puppy.

When I boot with no parameters I get the following result:

...
Now executing "inti" script in initial-ramdisk...
(Note: ...)
Loading kernel modules... done
Looking for Puppy in done
Looking for pup_save.2fs in hda2...hda5... done

ERROR. cannot find Puppy on 'idecd' boot media.
PUPMODE=1 PDEV1=
Exited to initial-ramdisk (/dev/ram0) commandline...
(the Linux-guru....)

/bin/sh:can't access tty: job control turned off
#

I've also tried to boot with "puppy ide=nodma" with the same result.

Any help with be much appretiated! Thanks.

P.S.: More information on the hardware of this machine can be seen on this (http://www.xs4all.nl/~sozonko/asus_r2h_howto/) page, that describes an installation of Arch Linux on this UMPC.

[rcrsn51]

This error is often due to non-standard optical drive configurations. This link may help:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=16950