How to boot from HDD without using floppy ?

[wscarl]

This works
THis wiill install Puppy on single hard drive in hda1 (this is not for shared data it is one hard disk dedicated to Puppy
You will need one hard disk
Need One Puppy CD
THe blessing of the all knowing central Data bank ( need to DL)

* Boot up Puppy CD
* Go to rxvt command line (icon on desktop)
* type cfdisk [Enter] and create a primary hda1 Linux ext 2 partition
(Toggle Bootable)
* downlond "grubhd.zip" to root directory and click on it. This should load tkzip automatically (select all and unzip to root/) (http://www.geocities.com/petersieg/grubhd.zip)
* go to root with rxvt and type "./install-hdgrud.sh" [no quote marks]
* when you get a grud prompt type
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
*reboot

[achilles]

I've been wrestling with attempts to install puppy on an
IDE hard disk. wscarl's posting has just (I hope) solved
my problem. However, I think there are a couple of
typos 'grud' for 'grub'.

Any suggestions for the ext2 partition size - 2gig
adequate for the time being?

[wscarl]

User the max of HD - New puppy is easyer
Install on 233mhz 64meg 3.2hd Laptop -the old dog runs like a new puppy!
for systems >128 ram (posted on how to install on 32meg system)
Boot from Puppy CD (1.0.2rc or 1.0.2)
Go to rxvt command line (icon on desktop)
type cfdisk [Enter] and create a primary (bootable) hda1 Linux ext 2 partition
run the HD install wizard
option 2
/dev/hda1
y to take over HD
n to floppy
y to grud
first choice on all grub
system and boot.
if nee any more info email me at: windowsystemcomputers@yahoo.com

[TGZ]

Hello
tried it but get error Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. ?
any idea?

Puppy on (hd0,0)


Thanks

There is a version of GRUB for MS-DOS in case anyone is interested. Very easy to install and doesn't modify the MBR (Master Boot Record) which you may find an advantage, depending on your setup. Installation is quite simple also.

You can download the package at:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stu ... rub013.zip

(I thought it should be ftp.ibiblio.org but gFTP accesses it at www.ibiblio.org)

Here is a brief step-by-step how to install it with MS-DOS (not FreeDOS because it only works with MS-DOS)

1) download grub013.zip

2) make directory c:\boot\grub

3) extract grub.exe and menu.lst from grub013.zip to c:\boot\grub (leave the other files in the zip package because these two files are all you need)

4) edit menu.lst for Puppy (see my example at end of post)

5) you can run grub.exe in config.sys with a menu system

use:
install=c:\boot\grub\grub.exe

or try shell statement I think this works also:
shell=c:\boot\grub\grub.exe

or in autoexec.bat

c:\boot\grub\grub.exe

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EXAMPLE MENU.LST

you will have to modify partition location and pupfile name and size
to suit your needs. this is for an example only.

===================

color white/blue black/light-gray
# default 0
# timeout 8


title Drive C:
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

# (example for type 1 install)
title Puppy
rootnoverify (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram PFILE=pup1-none-131072 PHOME=hda5
initrd /image.gz

# (example for type 2 install)
title Puppy (hda6)
kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6

title Floppy
root (fd0)
chainloader +1

title Reboot Computer
reboot

[Bruce B]

This was my example:

# (example for type 1 install)
title Puppy
rootnoverify (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram PFILE=pup1-none-131072 PHOME=hda5
initrd /image.gz

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You are booting from hda1 - let's modify the example:

# (example for type 1 install)
title Puppy
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram PFILE=pup1-none-131072 PHOME=hda1
initrd /image.gz

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Note: In this example the following three files need to be on the root (C:\)

* vmlinuz
* image.gz
* usr_cram.fs

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What else? I think it best to not load drivers or anything like that, make a clean DOS boot.

Questions if you think they apply:

What FAT type?
How much free space?
How much RAM?
How are you running grub.exe?

[TGZ]

Hello
i fixed by Downloading ver 1.0.2, when will opera ver be out?

the only problem now is that only have usb keyboard so i am stuck at select keyboard screen.

Thanks

This was my example:

# (example for type 1 install)
title Puppy
rootnoverify (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram PFILE=pup1-none-131072 PHOME=hda5
initrd /image.gz

----------

You are booting from hda1 - let's modify the example:

# (example for type 1 install)
title Puppy
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram PFILE=pup1-none-131072 PHOME=hda1
initrd /image.gz

----------

Note: In this example the following three files need to be on the root (C:\)

* vmlinuz
* image.gz
* usr_cram.fs

---------

What else? I think it best to not load drivers or anything like that, make a clean DOS boot.

Questions if you think they apply:

What FAT type?
How much free space?
How much RAM?
How are you running grub.exe?