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Old 04-09-2017, 10:59 AM   #16
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You could try just changing the entry to 'hd1,gpt3' or whatever the partition is. I don't use GPT but see that on other threads dealing with GPT. Simple enough to test if your partition table is still GPT.

Reviewing your more recent posts, it appears you have mis-read my earlier posts. The first method suggested in post 10 did come from a Puppy forum and seemed a little weird to me. I've never done any thing like that with any other Linux iso but it did boot. You got the steps right until the part about copying the sfs files. After loop mounting the slacko.iso, copy these two sfs files to the root of the partition, where you have the iso file: puppy_slacko_6.3.0.sfs zdrv_slacko_6.3.0.sfs When you then look at the partition, you should then see the two .sfs files, the slack.iso and the boot directory. Using the first menuentry I posted above should then boot Puppy.

The second method requires you to loop mount the slack.iso, then create a puppy directory on the flash drive on the root of the partition, and copy all the files from the loop mounted directory to the puppy directory on the flash drive and use the second menuentry I posted above and put in in your grub.cfg file on the flash drive. With this method, you are not booting the iso but rather the 'extracted' files and you can delete the iso file of slacko from the flash drive.
yep, yeah, I tested with msdos partition table and it throws the same error.

I never extracted the iso files... want to try without. Because most of the linux distros could boot as .iso :\

I just wonder why grub cannot read "puppy_slacko_6.3.0.sfs and zdrv_slacko_6.3.0.sfs" from the iso file

Later I'll post there the resutls, sure it will work properly many thanks!
 
Old 04-09-2017, 11:52 AM   #17
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Hi ciroreed,

Been away and just catching up on this thread ... I apologize for not having read your first post correctly. You are attempting to boot Puppy directly from an ISO file on your USB, correct ? This is not how Puppy boots from a removeable device. So my initial comments are incomplete.

As yancek has mentioned in at least one post, you have to extract the contents of the Puppy ISO file to a subdirectory on your USB drive and THEN make sure the appropriate kernel line options are set for the specific version of Puppy you are using and the method you are using it (removeable media, "frugal install", or full hard disk installation). The last method is not particularly recommended by the Puppy community, since Puppy is a root-user only distro. The removeable media and frugal (sort of a hybrid method) install are the recommended ways to go.

I have 2 versions of Puppy that I boot from a USB drive that I prepared with YUMI. I also use this same USB drive to boot all sorts of other distros and recovery tools. I recommend YUMI - it makes the configuration of each distro and tool rather painless, and it knows what to do with Puppy.

Essentially, it's what I mentioned above and what yancek has specified as well - Puppy relies on its main files that are formatted as a squash file system (the "sfs" files). At the very minimum, these must be present in a subdirectory that Puppy know where to look.

Hope this helps and, once again, apologies for having read your initial post too quickly and giving you incomplete advice.

Cheers.
 
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Old 04-09-2017, 02:15 PM   #18
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I just wonder why grub cannot read "puppy_slacko_6.3.0.sfs and zdrv_slacko_6.3.0.sfs" from the iso file
Sorry but it's not Grub, it's the way Puppy is configured to boot. It needs the .sfs files at the same source as the .iso file so if you put the iso in the / (root) of a partition and the .sfs files in the / (root) of the partition, it will boot. If you extract all the Puppy files from the iso and create a directory in the / (root) of a partition and copy all the files there, Puppy will boot. This isn't necessary with most Linux distributions I have used. I have yet to come across any instructions to boot Puppy directly from the iso without modifications as mentioned above.
 
Old 04-09-2017, 05:51 PM   #19
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Hi ciroreed,

Been away and just catching up on this thread ... I apologize for not having read your first post correctly. You are attempting to boot Puppy directly from an ISO file on your USB, correct ? This is not how Puppy boots from a removeable device. So my initial comments are incomplete.

As yancek has mentioned in at least one post, you have to extract the contents of the Puppy ISO file to a subdirectory on your USB drive and THEN make sure the appropriate kernel line options are set for the specific version of Puppy you are using and the method you are using it (removeable media, "frugal install", or full hard disk installation). The last method is not particularly recommended by the Puppy community, since Puppy is a root-user only distro. The removeable media and frugal (sort of a hybrid method) install are the recommended ways to go.

I have 2 versions of Puppy that I boot from a USB drive that I prepared with YUMI. I also use this same USB drive to boot all sorts of other distros and recovery tools. I recommend YUMI - it makes the configuration of each distro and tool rather painless, and it knows what to do with Puppy.

Essentially, it's what I mentioned above and what yancek has specified as well - Puppy relies on its main files that are formatted as a squash file system (the "sfs" files). At the very minimum, these must be present in a subdirectory that Puppy know where to look.

Hope this helps and, once again, apologies for having read your initial post too quickly and giving you incomplete advice.

Cheers.
thanks mate, btw I misunderstand both you but i learned a lot
 
Old 04-09-2017, 05:52 PM   #20
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Sorry but it's not Grub, it's the way Puppy is configured to boot. It needs the .sfs files at the same source as the .iso file so if you put the iso in the / (root) of a partition and the .sfs files in the / (root) of the partition, it will boot. If you extract all the Puppy files from the iso and create a directory in the / (root) of a partition and copy all the files there, Puppy will boot. This isn't necessary with most Linux distributions I have used. I have yet to come across any instructions to boot Puppy directly from the iso without modifications as mentioned above.
Okay, Thanks! I just wonder how the F*** he achieve it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M1ufJVxJmU
 
Old 04-09-2017, 07:57 PM   #21
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Okay, Thanks! I just wonder how the F*** he achieve it
I'm not sure what he did but he didn't post enough info for anyone to know. If you look at the menuentry he shows for Puppy you will see that on the linux line he has: boot=live config. Those are entries used on a Debian iso to boot it because extracting a Debian iso, you will see a 'live' directory which contains the squashfs file. There is no 'live' directory on a Puppy iso so that would not do anything. I don't know what you had for an initrd file on your Puppy but, the one on the iso I used was 'initrd.gz' which has been the standard on every Puppy I tried. He is using "Quirky Puppy" which is not what I used so that may be the difference.
 
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I don't know what you had for an initrd file on your Puppy but, the one on the iso I used was 'initrd.gz' which has been the standard on every Puppy I tried.
I think its the same for every puppy. I have 'initrd.gz' too

well, thank you again

Im gonna mark this thread as solved
 
Old 04-10-2017, 08:29 AM   #23
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I think its the same for every puppy. I have 'initrd.gz' too
Turns out it's not and the entry initrd.q shown in the video is correct for quirky puppy. I downloaded quirky puppy yesterday and it's actually named "april-7.2.1.iso" and put the iso file in the root of my sdb3 partition with the entry below and it booted right up. I didn't make any changes, just put the iso in the root of the directory and didn't need to extract and put the sfs files in the root. I guess there is something different about Quirky. I didn't use the "boot=live config" parameters from the video because they are useless. The isolinux.cfg file on the quirky iso had the "rootwait rw" parameters so I used them to try booting Slacko again and that failed even though the only change being the iso file name.

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menuentry "Puppy Quirky" {
set isofile="/april-7.2.1.iso"
loopback loop (hd1,msdos3)$isofile
linux (loop)/vmlinuz rootwait rw
initrd (loop)/initrd.q
}
 
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Old 04-10-2017, 08:38 AM   #24
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Turns out it's not and the entry initrd.q shown in the video is correct for quirky puppy. I downloaded quirky puppy yesterday and it's actually named "april-7.2.1.iso" and put the iso file in the root of my sdb3 partition with the entry below and it booted right up. I didn't make any changes, just put the iso in the root of the directory and didn't need to extract and put the sfs files in the root. I guess there is something different about Quirky. I didn't use the "boot=live config" parameters from the video because they are useless. The isolinux.cfg file on the quirky iso had the "rootwait rw" parameters so I used them to try booting Slacko again and that failed even though the only change being the iso file name.
... Good to know - I hadn't seen a directly bootable ISO of Puppy yet ...

Thanks yancek.
 
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Turns out it's not and the entry initrd.q shown in the video is correct for quirky puppy. I downloaded quirky puppy yesterday and it's actually named "april-7.2.1.iso" and put the iso file in the root of my sdb3 partition with the entry below and it booted right up. I didn't make any changes, just put the iso in the root of the directory and didn't need to extract and put the sfs files in the root. I guess there is something different about Quirky. I didn't use the "boot=live config" parameters from the video because they are useless. The isolinux.cfg file on the quirky iso had the "rootwait rw" parameters so I used them to try booting Slacko again and that failed even though the only change being the iso file name.
I'll try to see it

Thanks to share this!
 
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I hadn't seen a directly bootable ISO of Puppy yet ...
Neither had I. I've generally used the second method I posted (post 10) of extracting the folders/files from the iso using a loop mount and in the case of puppy, creating a puppy directory in the / of the partition where Grub was and booting that way. When I first started doing this with Grub Legacy it was the only way as an iso could not be booted and it almost always worked with any distribution.

The first method in that post of copying the .sfs files to the / of the partition worked with Slacko but it almost doubled the size of the puppy files since the .sfs files are also part of the iso so the total puppy files were almost 400MB. If the iso can't be booted directly the way Quirky was, I'd use the extraction method. Takes up less space and also almost always works.
 
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