Kernel panic while trying to boot PL431 frugally...

[RetroTechGuy]

I'm posting today that I already boot PL431 after crreating an ext2 partition, creating a pl431 folder, putting in there all the OS files for booting up & reconfiguring menu.lst accordingly.

BTW, I also saw a folder created a long time ago named pl431-backup at another partition. I suspect that about a year ago I tried to make a CFCard to contain & boot pl431 by means of grub4dos. I might flush its contents back to the CFCard & keep trying that route but it won't be early this week; maybe in the weekend. For this last issue I'll start a whole new thread.

Thanks to all!

If it's not painful to put in on the HDD, I would run it there. It will be a lot faster on shutdown.

I am running 5.28.005 on my new (used) laptop, and have it installed on a 4 GB SD. It is fairly slow to save and shut down. I will eventually look into putting it on the HDD. (need to examine if, and how much of the Lin'N'Win instructions will transfer -- they were geared for XP and Win98).

[benny7440]

I don't understand the statement: "If it's not painful to put in on the HDD, I would run it there."

Are you talking about a full HDD installation (not frugal)? What I like of the frugal installations is that it's so flexible in terms of upgrading, moving around &, specially, it avoid conflicts with other systems that might be present giving the user so much flexibility.

You mentioned that you're running 5.28.005 installed at a CFCard & I'm remembering that once far back in time I ran a puppy from a CFCard also at this VAIO & it was a painful experience to see its' slow execution; I uninstalled. Curious though, you mentioned also the first method for me to experience a linux (Puppy 411 or 421) distribution: Lin'N'Win. At that time I was running XP. I'm not that sure of it but I think that there're methods to intervene with the booting process of other microsoft products as well to achieve the same results...

Good luck in your endeavours!

[RetroTechGuy]

I don't understand the statement: "If it's not painful to put in on the HDD, I would run it there."

Are you talking about a full HDD installation (not frugal)? What I like of the frugal installations is that it's so flexible in terms of upgrading, moving around &, specially, it avoid conflicts with other systems that might be present giving the user so much flexibility.

I run only frugal installs. I like 'em as it's easy to do "backups". But I usually install them on the HDD, which has much fast read-write speeds.

You mentioned that you're running 5.28.005 installed at a CFCard & I'm remembering that once far back in time I ran a puppy from a CFCard also at this VAIO & it was a painful experience to see its' slow execution; I uninstalled. Curious though, you mentioned also the first method for me to experience a linux (Puppy 411 or 421) distribution: Lin'N'Win. At that time I was running XP. I'm not that sure of it but I think that there're methods to intervene with the booting process of other microsoft products as well to achieve the same results...

Good luck in your endeavours!

Mine is pretty snappy operating -- a fast machine, with lots of RAM. It's just the shutdown that is slow. It takes a fair amount of time to write 500 MB of data onto a slow-ish SD card (I suppose that I could buy one of the fast cards, which should help)..

Lin'N'Win allows one to add other boot options into the Windows boot sequence, with minimal invasion (i.e. you don't need to overwrite the boot sector, just modify some of the Windows files)