Booted Puppy 1.0.3, boot option 1 (save to HD) on a computer which had never seen Puppy before. Everything appeared to go well, until, just before the albatross appeared on screen, a message in red text said Puppy was unable to find a suitable partition, and nothing would be saved to hard drive.
Once Puppy booted, I ran the mounting wizard and it saw the ext2 partition and mounted it.
The computer is a H-P, about 6 years old, with a 1GHz Athlon processor, 512 MB of RAM, and a (new) 160 GB hard drive which the computer can't see all of, I think because the BIOS is too old.
The hard drive has Windows 2000 Pro and Mandriva Linux SE on it. It has 6 partitions: 3 NTFS, 1 ext3 (4.4 GB), 1 ext2 (about 40 GB) and a 1GB Linux swap partition. The bootloader is whatever Mandriva installed; I think GRUB but maybe LILO. Does it matter?
I'd like to use Puppy on this computer, but I don't want to install it to the hard drive because upgrading to new versions of Puppy is much easier if you run from the CD. So I need a pup001 file.
I'm stumped. Any suggestions?
Puppy can't see ext2 partition (booting from CD.) (Solved.)
Puppy can't see ext2 partition (booting from CD.) (Solved.)
Last edited by Flash on Wed 29 Jun 2005, 21:48, edited 2 times in total.