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07-27-2009, 03:23 PM
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Registered: Jul 2009
Location: Georgia, USA
Distribution: Ubuntu, Puppy
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Problem booting Puppy Linux 4.2.1 from cd
I attempted to boot puppy-4.2.1-k2.6.25.16-seamonkey from a cd without messing around with boot options.
The boot stopped at
Code:
Performing a 'switch_root' to the layered filesystem...Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
This was right after using DBAN to wipe the hard drive.
Anyone know what's going on here?
Last edited by gray53; 07-27-2009 at 03:28 PM.
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07-27-2009, 03:29 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2009
Location: Gordonsville-AKA Mayberry-Virginia
Distribution: Slack14.2/Many
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Did you reformat the hd after using dban?
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07-27-2009, 03:30 PM
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Location: Georgia, USA
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No.
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07-27-2009, 03:31 PM
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LQ Guru
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yeah
your gonna have to use gparted or whatever to format the hd
it's been blanked
you got gparted?
what other livecd's do you have?
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07-27-2009, 03:38 PM
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I'll try GParted. Never used it before, though. Do I need the dependencies? (Parted >= 1.7.1 and Gtkmm >= 2.8.x from http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ and http://gtkmm.org/) If so, does that mean burning a total of 3 cds?
Last edited by gray53; 07-27-2009 at 03:50 PM.
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07-27-2009, 03:59 PM
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LQ Guru
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Location: Gordonsville-AKA Mayberry-Virginia
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OH
no, I meant gparted livecd
it's like 90mb or something
http://distrowatch.com/index.php?distribution=gparted
many other distro's have gparted too
as an app
I wouldn't use the gparted in puppy
I read somewhere that it's had issues.
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07-27-2009, 04:30 PM
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Location: Georgia, USA
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OK, I'm downloading the gparted-live 0.4.5-2.iso
So when I burn that to a cd, I can put that in to the computer with the blanked hard drive and use it to format the hard drive, thus enabling me to install Puppy. Correct?
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07-27-2009, 04:35 PM
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LQ Guru
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Yep
it should work
Gparted will auto-open when you get to desktop
and you can start hacking it up
you gonna use ext3 or what?
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07-27-2009, 05:06 PM
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Location: Georgia, USA
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http://www.puppylinux.org/?q=manuals...ing-partitions I will be following this manual, except without the first partition listed.
btw, do you know if the fourth partition listed is necessary? I have another computer with Windows and an external hd with stuff saved on it from Windows and would like to be able to transfer stuff back and forth between the three.
Last edited by gray53; 07-27-2009 at 05:18 PM.
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