Puppy 3.01 stuck on boot...

Beener · 09-08-2009, 08:20 PM

I used opera browser to dowload Puppy 3.01, burned the Live CD with BurnCDCC and everytime I try to boot I get to this point...

Loading kernel drives needed to access disk drives... done
Searching for Puppy files in computer disk drives...pup_301.sfs not found. Dropping out to initial-ramdisk console...
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

and no further. What next??

colorpurple21859 · 09-08-2009, 09:00 PM

at the main boot prompt type:

puppy pfix=ram

that's suppose to prevent puppy from serching for installed puppy files.

Beener · 09-09-2009, 07:48 AM

Ok, is there a key that I need to hit at start-up to get to the prompt. It seems to just give me a main screen that looks like a bunch of boot stuff and then heads straight to the looking for drives stuff. When I download the original iso file I notice another file below it on the list tagged the same but with a different file extention, do I need both these files burnt to the Live CD??

colorpurple21859 · 09-09-2009, 10:21 AM

at the screen where the boot stuff is start typing as soon as you see it.

repo · 09-09-2009, 10:25 AM

Quote:

at the screen where the boot stuff is start typing as soon as you see it.

Or press F2 :-)

Beener · 09-09-2009, 03:54 PM

Ok, well I went ahead and burnt another Live CD at a slower speed and I will also try the F2 at start up to get to the prompt and try the pfix=ram as well.

Alternatively, I have burnt a SLiTaz Live CD as well and will see if that one works out better. I am told that Puppy will work on just about any system but with only 64mb of ram I think I may be limited to smaller distro's

Thanks, i'll let you know how it goes tonight.