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   RoyYoung
   Member

   Hi,
   I have been a happy user of Puppy since the 4.X days and recently read about Macpup and decided to give it a try. I have a multi-boot set up with grub4dos as my boot manager, with Windows 7, Lucid Puppy and Macpup all on a NTFS partition. My Lucid Puppy is a frugal install and I basically use the same set up but in a new folder. Here is my menu.lst file:

   title Windows 7
   root (hd0,0)
   chainloader /bootmgr

   title Puppy5.2
   root (hd0,1)
   kernel /puppy5/vmlinuz
   initrd /puppy5/initrd.gz

   title MacPup5.20
   root (hd0,1)
   kernel /macpup/vmlinuz
   initrd /macpup/initrd.gz

   Now I have been running Puppy under this set up for years with no problem. However, when I try the new Macpup 5.20, I encounter an error during boot up saying macpup_520.sfs cannot be found and initrd just hang there after that message. Just wondering if there is something anyone can think of that can cause this.
   Thanks in advance.

   Posted 1 year ago #
2. 

   runtt21
   Moderator

   Are puppy and macpup on their own partition? Or the same one cause your telling grub4dos to look in the same place root(hd0,1) for both. Make sure the macpup_520.sfs is in that new folder and that it didn't get remaned to macpup-520.sfs by windoze. The only other thing I can think of is that the macpup_520.sfs is several layers down on the drive and initrd can't find it.It only checks the first 2 layers I think.So if it's 3 or 4 folder down it will be a problem.

   Posted 1 year ago #
3. 

   RoyYoung
   Member

   Happy to report I finally got it to work, although I am still not sure why. Basically I just moved my Lucid Puppy folder to another partition and now everything works fine. I think somehow initrd was getting Lucid and Macpup mixed up but I still can not come up with a reason for this. By the way great job on the new version of macpup. The artworks are fantastic.

   Posted 1 year ago #
4. 

   runtt21
   Moderator

   Their initrd are almost the same. The macpup version is only different in that it looks for macpupxxxx in place of lupuxxxxx. Other than that ,they are the same.

   Posted 1 year ago #

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