If you make a partition EXT3 and then install puppy on it Frugal or Full, the result seems never to be able to boot. I am using the grub boot manager in these cases.
If you make your save file be in the EXT3 format when you save your settings from a LiveCD, the system will do a kernel panic part way through booting. The save file in this case was on a memory stick.
lucid-528 won't boot from EXT3
I cannot duplicate your first problem. I just did a frugal install of Lupu 528 using the method here with ext3 and Legacy GRUB. It worked fine.
I then converted it to Grub4Dos. It also worked.
Please provide details.
[Edit] I then tested your second problem - booting off the CD with a lupusave.3fs on a flash drive. That also worked correctly.
I then converted it to Grub4Dos. It also worked.
the result seems never to be able to boot.
Please provide details.
[Edit] I then tested your second problem - booting off the CD with a lupusave.3fs on a flash drive. That also worked correctly.