i've been install puppy on trancend flash 256mb with 1 partition but every load after powerdown my puppy just show prompth without gui
any body to help me ?

Please post your /etc/inittab file.

::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
tty1::respawn:/sbin/getty -n -l /bin/autologinroot 38400 tty1
tty2::respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/reboot

does 'startx' launch the GUI?

yes it does but not automatically when computer on,can u tell me how ?

Edit your inittab file like this:
(assuming the startx command is located at /usr/bin/startx: 'which startx' will tell you where it is)
For more informations, you can do:
man inittab
(assuming the man pages are installed)

tks for your answer, but i have condition like this =>in bios setting i put AC power loss auto start enable so when pc going to power down/power fail and up again i hope puppy back to desktop/gui again but it doesn't,puppy just show prompt....
can you help me to solve the problem so i get puppy desktop whatever condition ?tks any way

Editing the inittab doesn't solve your problem?

no it doesn't, in line 7 when reboot after i plug-in the power cord mention about bad inittab entry and prompt again,honestly puppy was insttaled on flash ide 256mb and the pc always run 24 hour a day and if power fail and up again the puppy must be run with desktop/xwin. any suggestion ?

According to this link:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=15839
puppy is not using regular runlevels but /etc/profile to start xwin:
Can you please post your /etc/profile?
Oh and put back your old inittab since this is not going to solve your problem.

herewith your request sir....tks again

PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R7/bin:/root/my-applications/bin"
ulimit -c 0
if [ `id -gn` = `id -un` -a `id -u` -gt 14 ]; then
umask 002
else
umask 022
fi
USER=`id -un`
PS1="# "
LOGNAME=$USER
HISTSIZE=1000
HISTFILE="$HOME/.history"
EDITOR=mp
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
#TERM=linux
#v2.13...
if [ -f /usr/bin/urxvt ];then
#now using urxvt...
TERM="rxvt-unicode"
else
TERM="xterm"
fi

# used by XRN, change to your news server...
# NNTPSERVER="news.dodo.com.au"
# GS_FONTPATH="/usr/X11R7/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
export PS1 USER LOGNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC EDITOR TERM
XFINANSDIR="/root/.xfinans"
export XFINANSDIR
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/lib/mozilla"
# MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH="/root/plugins"
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME #MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH
KDEDIR="/usr/local/kde"
#v2.13 konqueror-embedded in /opt/kde...
[ -d /opt/kde ] && KDEDIR="/opt/kde:/usr/local/kde"
export KDEDIR

#v2.10 MU: rox crashes with DRI modules. solution:
export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/X11R7/lib:/root/my-applications/lib"

if [ -e /usr/lib/mozilla ];then
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/mozilla:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
fi

if [ -e /usr/lib/qt ];then #do not use -d as qt may be link?
QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt
export QTDIR
PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
fi
if [ -d /usr/local/kde/bin ];then
PATH="/usr/local/kde/bin:$PATH"
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/kde/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
fi
export QT_XFT=true #v2.12

#v2.10 T2 firefox, nvu, thunderbird install into /opt...
if [ -d /opt/mozilla.org/bin ];then
PATH="/opt/mozilla.org/bin:$PATH"
fi

export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH

#this line gets edited by chooselocale script...
LANG=en_US
export LANG
TZ="`cat /etc/TZ | tr -d "\n"`"
export TZ
#this is for antialiased fonts in gtk1 apps...
#LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libgdkxft.so
#export LD_PRELOAD
#WISH mini-console needs this...
HOSTNAME="`cat /etc/hostname | tr -d "\n"`"
export HOSTNAME
#Quisp database needs this...
SHSQL_DB="/root/ghttpd/quisp"
export SHSQL_DB

#SHELL="/bin/bash"
#export SHELL
#...this causes a problem with characters in text-mode apps running in rxvt. for example, in mp
#a vertical line character displays as a 3. so leave the default shell as Busybox sh.
#...no, have a fix, from alienX. added TERM=xterm to /root/.bashrc.
#v2.0.0 additional note: now have /bin/sh a symlink to /bin/bash, so above not used.

#v1.0.5
#Sylpheed 2.0.1 requires this (also some other gtk2 apps)...
export G_FILENAME_ENCODING=@locale

#v1.0.6
#sylpheed uses metamail which requires this...
export MM_RUNASROOT=1

#v1.0.6
DEFAULTBROWSER="`cat /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser | tail -n 1 | tr -s " " | cut -f 2 -d " "`"
DEFAULTDRAW="`cat /usr/local/bin/defaultdraw | tail -n 1 | tr -s " " | cut -f 2 -d " "`"
DEFAULTHTMLEDITOR="`cat /usr/local/bin/defaulthtmleditor | tail -n 1 | tr -s " " | cut -f 2 -d " "`"
DEFAULTMEDIAPLAYER="`cat /usr/local/bin/defaultmediaplayer | tail -n 1 | tr -s " " | cut -f 2 -d " "`"
DEFAULTPAINT="`cat /usr/local/bin/defaultpaint | tail -n 1 | tr -s " " | cut -f 2 -d " "`"
DEFAULTSPREADSHEET="`cat /usr/local/bin/defaultspreadsheet | tail -n 1 | tr -s " " | cut -f 2 -d " "`"
DEFAULTTEXTEDITOR="`cat /usr/local/bin/defaulttexteditor | tail -n 1 | tr -s " " | cut -f 2 -d " "`"
DEFAULTWORDPROCESSOR="`cat /usr/local/bin/defaultwordprocessor | tail -n 1 | tr -s " " | cut -f 2 -d " "`"
export DEFAULTBROWSER DEFAULTDRAW DEFAULTHTMLEDITOR DEFAULTMEDIAPLAYER DEFAULTPAINT DEFAULTSPREADSHEET DEFAULTTEXTEDITOR DEFAULTWORDPROCESSOR

#v2.02 rarsa provided this...
#freedesktop base directory spec: standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/
export XDG_DATA_HOME=$HOME/.local/share
export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config
export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share:/usr/local/share #v2.14 dropped trailing /
export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg #v2.14 changed from /usr/etc
export XDG_CACHE_HOME=$HOME/.cache

#v2.10 needed for pkg-config app to work properly...
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/X11R7/lib/pkgconfig"

#v2.13...
export HISTFILESIZE=2000
export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups

#v1.0.5
#personal customisation file...
[ -r /etc/profile.local ] && . /etc/profile.local

#v2.12
#xorgwizard creates this file, run once only...
if [ ! -f /tmp/bootcnt.txt ];then
[ -f /etc/resolutionfix ] && eval `cat /etc/resolutionfix`
fi

if [ ! -f /usr/X11R7/bin/X ];then
#v2.00r1 now support a text-mode-only puppy...
if [ -f /usr/local/bin/elinks ];then
if [ ! -f /tmp/bootcnt.txt ];then
touch /tmp/bootcnt.txt
exec /usr/local/bin/elinks file:///usr/share/doc/index.html
fi
else
echo
echo "\\033[1;31mSorry, cannot start X. Link /usr/X11R7/bin/X missing."
echo -n "(suggestion: type 'xorgwizard' to run the Xorg Video Wizard)"
echo -e "\\033[0;39m"
fi
else
#want to go straight into X on bootup only...
if [ ! -f /tmp/bootcnt.txt ];then
touch /tmp/bootcnt.txt
# aplay -N /usr/share/audio/bark.au
dmesg > /tmp/bootkernel.log
exec xwin
fi
fi