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[Emperor]

Hello Puppy Fans,
i need some input for a unusual problem.
Ive found the ultimate program for my Car ECU and cant use it cause the Screen start with stripes/mirror etc.
http://forums.turbobricks.com/showthread.php?t=259983
as you can see its a Lucid 5.2.5 and i start it from the Hard drive
using the ISO/Grub Mod method.

the problem is when i kill the xserver i only get a black screen without terminal. I also dont get any chance to start without the xserver or a commandline to boot in vesa mode.

Its an old ToughBook M34 with the neomagic graphic which works on older versions without any problem

[666philb]

you can boot puppy with the pfix=nox parameter
if you're booting with grub4dos you can edit the kernel line at boot.

or if you're booting live of the cd you need to put puppy pfix=nox

[Emperor]

no i cant
i have
no CD drive
no Floppy
no USB boot

i also dont get any console or terminal. All i have is my grub menu which let me chose to start Puppy Linux 4.3 or my PuppyTune

i use as Main System Puppy 4.3 as Fullinstall. PuppyTune should act like booting from a CD/usb but didnt show any typical menus at startup

[666philb]

do you have a live cd or usb? you could then edit the menu.1st to say pfix=nox

[Emperor]

again
i boot the iso from my HDD
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=28913



i have no external drive

[sfeeley]

So I'm trying to figure out the link that you provided (as there are several suggested methods in that thread)

I think, though that you end up with grub as a bootloader and that it is basically running as a frugal install. In which case you should be able to put a paramenter like
nox

in grub's menu.lst file at the kernel line.

(mostly helpful guessing on my part, so my apologies if I'm wrong)

also the google turned up this-- maybe helpful
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/how-do-you-make-puppy-boot-into-the-command-line-696422/

[Emperor]

sounds like a great idea

[Emperor]

iam stuck......it wont accept any command

[L18L]

[Emperor]

iam sure it is....grub do it when i select it or?

i have no idea how it works^^

[sfeeley]

[Emperor]

[666philb]

apparently full installs can't use pfix parameters (is this true?) however read though this post http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=65553&start=15

[Emperor]

ive read through that....and i tried a couple of things which was mentioned in that topic, without any succes.

is there no way to modify the boot.lst?

the main problem is that puppytune boot´s from a iso like a CD do.
Keep in mind ITS JUST AN ISO

it also seems that it ignores the isolinux.cfg which contains following lines

[sfeeley]

not sure if this is the answer, but I think maybe this line is wrong