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jamesbond

FYI: https://github.com/sfjro/aufs-standalone/issues/39
For now, I have to revert the this commit when I build my 6.1 kernel.

jamesbond

Confirmed the bug, and also the fix, thank you.

jamesbond

After I got the 2GB image file, can I extend the image file to 3GB with some commands? I want to add some files to the easy2 partition. Everything in done in terminal. 1. Run truncate -s 3G easyos.img . "3G" means "3 GB", and you can change it to 4G, 5G whatever you want, but yo...

jamesbond

One man's feature is another man's bug. A bug is something that is not supposed to happen. A feature is something that is deliberately put in, with effort, to make it happen. If you choose to ignore that despite our repeated explanations, and still intent on calling everything that you don't like o...

jamesbond

In practical terms it means that a person who has the distro installed on USB and on HDD, he may boot from USB, but with the wrong sfs files. In practical terms nothing bad will happen. 1. Most people will only have one puppy installed. 2. Puppy SFS files are versioned, one version of Puppy will no...

jamesbond

I tried to reproduce his problems and now I'm as puzzled as he is. I burned the ISO and closed the CD as he did. He reported that he had related files scattered on his internal and external drives and that these files prevented the proper booting of the CD, so I placed a copy of the main sfs and a ...

jamesbond

Thank you ozsouth , I will test that and get back to you. Clarity , I don't have such "stanza" as you call it. For casual tests, I just run qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 2048 with other parameters appropriately added depending on the situation (-hda, -hdb, -cdrom, -bios, -vga, etc). Fo...

jamesbond

I have just noticed a phenomenon that I consider odd. This message has been there in the last 12 years or so, since Fatdog64 600 days. I have overlooked this as it does NOT affect the system once on desktop, but it probably shouldn't be there OR should be reworded to something like "NO prior s...

jamesbond

If your bootloader configuration says to "search for files and use the first one you can find", well, then exactly which files will be used would be ... rather random ;) If the OS is going to arbitrarily load save file or folders, Joe User should be given a choice of which 'save' to use (...

jamesbond

hi all i have a question is a "puppy" 1. based on a concept or 2. based on a particular piece of code wanderer Hahaha. Here we go again. :lol: While we're at it, I'll add the third question: 3. Who gets to decide, whether a particular distro is "puppy" or "not puppy"? ...

jamesbond

Clarity wrote: ↑Tue Jun 04, 2024 3:16 am
could you share your QEMU stanza when time permits. Mine are published across the forum.

I know what a grub stanza is, but what is a QEMU stanza?
Can you provide a link to the one that you published, as an example?

jamesbond

@jamesbond - I tried to keep my offering smaller, reasoning very few would use amd, so left that firmware out. Understood. I should have just used your FD901's firmware for consistency. Actually this isn't necessary. I took your fdrv_03june24oz.sfs from your main release notes for 6.6.32 , and then...

jamesbond

Thank you for confirming. Don't worry about the URLs, they're just background information if you want to know what has been discussed before. Basically the newer mkfs.ext4 (from version 1.47 onwards) will by default enable metadata_csum, and many bootloaders do not recognise this "feature"...

jamesbond

Yes, I discovered that the CD actually boots from the ĆD, but only when I delete ALL PUPPY FILES, on ALL my internal drive, AND disconnect ALL external drives. Yes, this is correct, but you're exaggerating. It's "OR" and not "AND". Not only is this antithetical to any sense of c...

jamesbond

Thank you ozsouth ! The earlier one that I test is from the link given by mikewalsh , this is the 6.6.28, and I tested the Slacko version (at the time I test I didn't know the difference between the slacko and debian version, I guess it was lucky I chose the correct one). This one works well, boots ...

jamesbond

My idea was basically to learn how to compile a new FatDog-specific kernel that is as lean as possible. Will try to get this going and will report back if I encounter any problems. That sounds great, but if you have an itch or urge to use the other kernel branches __right now__, why don't you follo...

jamesbond

The thing is that I am always running FatDog in Ram-only mode and I am likely going to run out of space during the compilation process. Or could I simply connect an external USB pendrive to my system and have it compile to that larger storage location? Yes you can, and in fact that's how most of us...

jamesbond

Is there a specific technical reason why we are using the 6.1 line? Well, is there a reason why we should not? :lol: Would it be possible to upgrade the kernel to the 6.6 line Yes. If you need it, you can ask someone to compile it for you, or you can compile it yourself (if I recall, you already as...

jamesbond

Fatdog Control Panel

jamesbond

Sure, here it is, now as sdd2: # dumpe2fs /dev/sdd2 | grep features dumpe2fs 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023) Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index orphan_file filetype needs_recovery extent flex_bg metadata_csum_seed sparse_super large_file huge_file dir_nlink extra_isize metadata_cs...

jamesbond

In this second one I just appended the 'extrasfs=...' stuff to the options line, using a ; as separator: menuentry "Fatdog64 Linux with save dir and sfs2" { icon /EFI/boot/icons/os_fatdog.png volume PUPPIES initrd \FD901\initrd loader /FD901/vmlinuz options "savefile=ram:uuid:6e30160...

jamesbond

The two locations provide different sets of drivers. While the first one has no ntfs driver, the second one has a ntfs driver. Indeed. They're from different versions. The ones from efiboot.img are usually older, but when I remember I update them from time to time. You can try either ones. But plea...

jamesbond

If you're running Fatdog64, copy /usr/share/refind-bin-0.13.3.1/refind/drivers_x64/ (the entire folder) to /EFI/Boot (in your vfat formatted partition), then try again. If you're not running Fatdog64, you can find the same drivers_x64 folder inside efiboot.img.

jamesbond

They're both independent of each other. The remaster script always pull the latest microcode.

jamesbond

Is the way to go to change that 'options...' line to 'savefile=ask'? Yes, or just remove the savefile=XXX altogether. Or can rEFInd chain boot to isolinux or some grub file. I really don't like grub2, maybe rEFInd could chain the boot process to grub4dos. rEFInd doesn't understand isolinux or grub ...

jamesbond

No worries. To close the loose ends, were you finally able to boot Fatdog on that Dell laptop, using the refind method that @smokey01 suggested? If yes, it may be worthwhile for us to update the FAQ.

jamesbond

Are there checksum files for the kernel files and modules? There weren't before, but I've just added them. Hello @jamesbond Is there a modern test FD ISO or 2 that might address this FD ISO file boot problem on a Laptop? It's being addressed as we speak. Fatdog itself is fine, it's just that the gr...

jamesbond

Thank you for your detailed help. I much appreciate it. It would be nice that the text you've written could be part of Fatdog help or some FAQ. It's already there: http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/faqs/uefi-flashdrive2.html. smokey01 's instructions are based on that one, modified so that you c...

jamesbond

Fatdog co-exists with other puppies perfectly fine. But Fatdog installers won't do that for you. They won't install to places that already have existing bootloaders, as we consider mucking around with existing bootloader configurations to be very risky. As one simple mishap can corrupt it and the en...

jamesbond

Ok, 16GB should be more than enough.
This is most likely a bootloader bug or incompatibilities.

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