Just FYI...
I just spent an evening trying to load puppy 501 on a thinkpad 600 and was getting the same error 'cannot load lupu-501.sfs. I created a fat32 2gb partition and copied lupu-501.sfs over to it, but it would not see that either. The eventual fix was to add 'acpi=force' to the command line. So you hit F2 when puppy cd boots, then type 'puppy acpi=force'. It booted saying it is iqnoring IRQ10, but it booted up great! It sees my Dynex ethernet pcmcia. The display looks great. Only the sound doesn't work, which is not a deal breaker for me. Hope that helps somebody down the road. Bobby |
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but still no joy. In other words, it won't work, won't boot. Goes to show that what works for some doesn't for others. |
Solution for "lupu-501.sfs not found" Error Message!
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I assumed that what was happening was that the boot process was not finding the lupu-501.sfs file on the LiveCD for some reason. I simply used another computer running Linux (and therefore able to read the Linux file system) and copied lupu-501.sfs to an SD card (since the Portégé R500 has an SD card slot). Now, when I boot Puppy from the CD it does find lupu-501.sfs, copies it to RAM, and continues normally. I'm not sure if there is any other way to get past this error, but to anyone with this issue that wants a quick fix, I would suggest: 1) Copy that lupu-501.sfs file to any other device, such as a USB drive if you can. 2) Insert that drive in the intended sytem. 3) Boot normally from the Puppy 501 CD as usual. This way, the missing lupu-501 file should get discovered during the boot process from the LiveCD. You will still need the LiveCD. My next step, if I can, will be to discover how to install Puppy 501 completely on the SD card, so I don't need the CD drive any more. |
Success on Portege R700
I was experiencing the same problem with attempting to load Puppy 5.1.2 Wary and Puppy 4.3.1 on Portege R700. Seems the problem in my case was caused by having a USB hard drive connected during boot. Without the drive connected, puppy found the sfs file and loaded it from the CD correctly.
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