Hi, I am triple booting Windows XP,Ubuntu, and Puppy 400. At the grub, when I choose Puppy, I get the error message error 11 unrecognized device string. This is a new install of Puppy.

I used frugal install and have a new partition for the iso and kernel etc.

I modified the grub (menu.lst) in hd0,4 to include this:

title Puppy Linux 400 Frugal
root noverify (hd0,3)
kernel /puppy400/vmlinuz pmedia=idehd
initrd /puppy400/init.gz

I can boot to HD from the CD, but would like to be able to boot directly from grub.

Help!

The main problem I spotted is that the file in your last line should read initrd.gz, not init.gz. Are your puppy files on hda4?

Try this:
title Puppy Linux 400 Frugal
root (hd0,3)
kernel (hd0,3)/puppy400/vmlinuz PMEDIA=idehd
initrd (hd0,3)/puppy400/initrd.gz

Good morning Honeysuckle,
I tried your suggestion. I get an error 17 this time. Grub menu.lst is located on sda5 (hd0,4). Puppy is on sda3. Right now I don't know Puppy's hd0 number.

Got interested lately in minimal installation, and Puppy is minimal, but amazing speed for one who has a two year old computer.

I tried putting the grub menu in Puppy's partition, but got into all sorts of problems with that. I couldn't boot anything.

Thanks for the information. Any more help would be appreciated.

Problem Solved: Thanks Honeysuckle I used your menu.lst configuration, but changed to (hd0,2), and Puppy booted!

Now for the fun part. Playing with this great little distro.

Oh that's good, glad you got it sorted.

Hi all...I m not a complete noob in linux,let s say i m in the middle


SO,i ve got almost the same problem as ubume...The difference is I have Vista,ubuntu and zenwalk 5.2 and i try to get zenwalk to load through grub.
I've edited the grub with these

title Zenwalk
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25.4 root=/dev/hda6 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.splash


Am I doing something wrong?I get "error 11 unrecognized device string"...Any help will be greatly appreciated!!!!