DavidMcCann wrote:After actually stopping to think, I realised that by copying initrd and the sfs files, I manually created a frugal install! So, I started again.
I re-installed from scratch and followed the instructions on what to put in Fedora's grub.conf. The result on rebooting was
Kernel panic : not synching : VFS : unable to mount root FS on unknown block (0,0)
Then I started a fresh live-CD session and ran the tool to create grub. This invited me to put it in /dev/hda3 when it should have said /dev/sda3, but grub was duely installed. I then altered Fedora's grub.conf to use the chainloader approach. The result this time was
Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format
If someone has actually made a full install of Puppy, I'd be delighted to know how they did it; but please don't refer me to the on-line instructions, because they aren't working on this computer.
Have no idea what Fedora is using for a bootloader.
Can you post your /boot/grub/menu.lst?
This is what my full install list looks like:
# GRUB configuration file '/boot/grub/menu.lst'.
# generated by 'grubconfig'. Tue Aug 31 23:27:56 2010
#
# The backup copy of the MBR for drive '/dev/sda' is
# here '/boot/grub/mbr.sda.12568'. You can restore it like this.
# dd if=/boot/grub/mbr.sda.12568 of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
#
# Start GRUB global section
# timeout 10
color light-gray/blue black/light-gray
# End GRUB global section
# Other bootable partition config begins
title Windows (on /dev/sda1)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
# Other bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Puppy 431 (on /dev/sda2)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Puppy 412 (on /dev/sda3)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Luci246 (on /dev/sda5)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Wary098 (on /dev/sda6)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 pmedia=atahd
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Luci 257 (on /dev/sda7)
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda7 pmedia=atahd
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Wary 5.11 on /dev/sda8)
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda8 pmedia=atahd
# Linux bootable partition config ends
#pause Insert a formatted floppy disk and press enter.
#root (hd0,1)
#setup (fd0)
#pause Press enter to continue.
#title Install GRUB to Linux partition (on /dev/sda2)
#root (hd0,1)
#setup (hd0,1)
#pause Press enter to continue.
title - For help press 'c', then type: 'help'
root (hd0)
title - For usage examples, type: 'cat /boot/grub/usage.txt'
root (hd0)