Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[Bill253]

On Mon Jan 31, 2001 BarryK wrote:

[whatupuppy]

Hello all.. I started a new thread for my issue with the IBM A22M.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=64482

I have the same issue with WARY 5.0.

[whatupuppy]

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[tengzelius]

IBM NetVista
-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz
Memory : 512MB (197MB used)
Operating System : Puppy Linux 0.50
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Thu 03 Feb 2011 10:48:19 PM GMT+5
-Display-
Resolution : 800x600 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa GLX Indirect
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : ICH4 - Intel 82801DB-ICH4
-Input Devices-
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse
Power Button
Power Button
PC Speaker
-Printers (CUPS)-
CUPS-PDF : <i>Default</i>
-SCSI Disks-
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4167B
ATA WDC WD400BB-00JH
SD/MMC Card Reader

ALSA & numerous retrovol pets did not resolve. Problem occurs after reboot every time I listen to WABC News Talk Radio via internet. Never happens in 431. Only solution is to save a copy of the good save file in a folder and use it to revert to good sound. Wary_500.SFS file always OK. Somehow it is the Kernel which sends the RAM file to save at shutdown that is defective.

Can I delete the vmlinuz & copy the good 431 vmlinuz into the WARY folder?

Lou Tengzelius (DOB 1930)

[carolus]

How to boot Wary using grub4dos?

I've been booting Puppy 2.16 and 4.12 by chaining from the Windows XP bootloader to grub4dos to a USB flash drive as described in:

http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=1058

However, this method does not work for wary 5.0. Using the following entry in menu.lst, wary does not seem able to find wary_500.sfs in the root of the FAT16 USB flash drive.

title wary puppy 5 persistent (not working)
rootnoverify=(hd0,1)
kernel /nixboot/wary50/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 pmedia=usbflash
initrd /nixboot/wary50/initrd.gz

[BarryK]

[carolus]

Tried as suggested. Got

"Searching for Puppy files in computer disk drives ....
(next in red:) pausingwary.sfs not found. Dropping out to initial-ramdisk console."

I think that is the same error message as with the original boot codes.

[carolus]

I put copies of wary_500.sfs in all of: 1) the root of the USB flash, 2) the root of the hard drive system partition (Windows XP on partition 2), and 3) in /nixboot/wary50 on the hard drive, and then tried booting with the following grub4dos menu.lst entry:

title wary puppy 5 persistent
rootnoverify=(hd0,1)
kernel /nixboot/wary50/vmlinuz
initrd /nixboot/wary50/initrd.gz

This gave the message "searching deeper, sub-sub-folders in partitions", and finally booted successfully. Apparently wary could not find the .sfs in either the flash drive or the root of the hard drive, and dug down to find the third copy in a sub-sub-directory.

I'm now booting successfully with /nixboot/wary50/wary_500.sfs on the hard drive using:

title wary puppy 5 persistent
rootnoverify=(hd0,1)
kernel /nixboot/wary50/vmlinuz psubdir=nixboot/wary50
initrd /nixboot/wary50/initrd.gz

Unlike other puppies, I can't read wary_500.sfs from the root of the flash drive, with or without pmedia=usbflash. Maybe a bug?

Addendum: Although wary boots now, persistence doesn't work. When I create the snapshot file, choosing the directory as the root of the flash drive (changing from the suggested default of /nixboot/wary50, a directory that exists only on the hard drive), it creates the file but does not read it when rebooting. Wary is finding neither the .sfs nor the .2fs file when they are in the root of the flash drive.

In case it is not clear, I am booting from an NTFS hard disk but saving the persistence file to a FAT USB flash drive. My BIOS does not support booting from USB.

[s243a]

[s243a]

[rcrsn51]

You asked for help with ipt_MASQUERADE and never showed the courtesy of a reply. Someone with 200 posts should know better by now.

[s243a]

[s243a]

So, the remaster failed to write on the virtual machine. Perhaps I needed to insert a blank disk. I thought it would be able to write over the RW CD. Anyway, I was able to create a save file on the virtual hard drive. I didn't realize I could do this until I tried running the universal installer. I first ran gparted as though it was a real hard drive. I'm not sure if I needed to run the universal installer first or not but at least I have a Save file now. In theory I should be able to copy this save file to a USB and since my USB drive isn't working on the virtual machine (see above) I will have to move it either via the internet connection or via the shared folder (i.e. virtual box guest service).

Anyway, from all my ramblings perhaps it is clear why I don't always reply. I try a lot of things to get something to work, and I don't know if people want to read about all my dead ends. After 200 posts, I still have a lot to learn about puppylinux. I still feel quite novice.

Being able to share the internet was only the first step of making the old PC useful. I have to be able to get a better browser on Wary (see here & here), and to do that I need to be able to work on the pets I need on an upstairs computer and so that is why I am using a virtual box upstairs to develop pets for my OS that is in the basement.

[Sylvander]