Can't boot from CD after frugal install - SOLVED

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smellyman
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Can't boot from CD after frugal install - SOLVED

#1 Post by smellyman »

I have tested many pups from cd and usb. However, I finally did a frugal install of stardust.

Now when I load a pup cd and try to boot from it, it starts loading but then always boots into startdust.

For instance I am trying to boot from cd to the new Macpup opera. It loads the Macpup splash screen and I select Macpup. However it then boots right into the Stardust frugal install.

It does this with Lighthouse, Bruno, Lupu etc.

How do I keep this from happening?

Edit: I perhaps should note that the frugal install in in conjunction with an Antix install. I tried removing Stardust from Grub but the issue continued.
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rcrsn51
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#2 Post by rcrsn51 »

This sounds like a hardware problem with the CD-ROM drive. Try your CD on another machine to confirm that it's good.
adXok
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#3 Post by adXok »

Maybe before the loading part begins you should try pressing F2 (just do it till a verbose menu appears). Then with your Puppy distro in your CD-device try writing one of the menu suggested. Think the right one is:

puppy prefix=ram

This will ignore all sessions from frugal install or whatever and force t oload from CD into RAM.
smellyman
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#4 Post by smellyman »

adXok wrote:Maybe before the loading part begins you should try pressing F2 (just do it till a verbose menu appears). Then with your Puppy distro in your CD-device try writing one of the menu suggested. Think the right one is:

puppy prefix=ram

This will ignore all sessions from frugal install or whatever and force t oload from CD into RAM.
Brilliant! That solved the issue.

Thanks much
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