Machine: Dell Inspiron N7010 (no hard drive)
Distro: bionicpup6480uefi on a 32gb USB flash drive formatted as sda1 and sda2 and set as ext4, frugal install.
Sda1 holds the save-file and the distro. Sda2 holds private files.
Bionicpup64 has been running fine for years now once the kinks got worked out.
So, the weather is cold and dark and wet. All my house work is done so, I decided I wanted to add Stretch Dpup 7.5 to the flash drive and change my system to Dpup Stretch. I've always preferred Dpup.
The procedure as I best remember it: (Bear with me, it's been a while since I've had to think about booting issues and all that)
I backed up bionicpup64 files.
I took the Dpup .iso files from https://www.wikka.puppylinux.com/PuppyDpupStretch for 'recent' hardware.
Kernel options
• k4.9.149-i686-pae for recent hardware
stretch-7.5-uefi-k4.9.149.iso (10-Jan-2019)
http://smokey01.com/radky/Woof/stretch- ... .9.149.iso
md5: f0e1be0bb0920f46a291e34b8de35671
The download of .iso went fine except the md5 hash marks didn't match when 'hashed'.
I found the download in tmp. I moved +tmp+mozilla_root0+stretch-7.5-uefi-k.4.9.149.iso to a temporary scratch flash drive and to home.
When I explored the .iso, the dialogue box asked if I wanted to mount the sfs or install. I opted to run the distro once using SFS-on-the-fly.
I took the .iso out of root and used the .iso image from the scratch drive.
I placed +tmp+mozilla_root0+stretch-7.5-uefi-k.4.9.149.iso into sda1 per the on-the-fly instructions.
I rebooted.
Bionicpup64 went through the normal loading menu until a dialogue box came up with these choices:
Xorg Wizard
Done
set video driver
set color
new xorg.conf.
I chose 'done'
The screen went black and hung with a non-moving cursor in the upper left corner of the screen.
The only way to escape was to cold cut the machine.
I re-ran in RAM mode.
The second try had an extra line in the loading menu. That line says: 'Loading extra SFS fixing menu'.
I deleted +tmp+mozilla_root0+stretch-7.5-uefi-k.4.9.149.iso from sda1 and SFS-on-the-fly. The 'Loading extra SFS' message still appears.
The system continues to hang with the black screen and non-moving cursor in upper left corner.
Normally I'd send a bunch of screen shots. Perhaps in the next post I can do that. I'm using an old backup machine to send this. I'll re-program the RAM version to send emails with screen shots. Dinner first.
So, I hope I have given you enough accurate verbage to help solve the issue for starters.
Obviously, something in the boot procedure is out-of-wack.
Am I wrong in thinking I can have two distros on one drive?
How do I get back to Bionicpup64? It's still on sda1.
Perhaps this Dell Inspiron is less than 'recent'?
Thank you advance.
I know, I know, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it".
Sky