Xboot and problems booting from Composite Image

GunJack

Guys,

anyone well clued-up on Xboot?? I've been trying to create a bootable USB with puppy linux, hiren's and avira rescueCD, but with all 3 on there the drive won't boot. If I just put puppy and avira on, it'll boot, but puppy won't set up properly, keeps binning out of X. I've got puppy on a stand-alone bootable usb with no problems :mad:

I've tried the forums with no joy, was just wondering if anyone has tried/encountered/beaten this ??

Hanx in advance
G-J

GunJack

...anyone ???? ......

debitcardmayhem

GunJack wrote: »

...anyone ???? ......

Not now jack will be back soon and will look up mine (mind you don't have Puppy on mine....) Having coffee at the neighbours and sorting a small problem for him , gimme a few days;)

GunJack

cheers matey

debitcardmayhem

GunJack wrote: »

cheers matey

Afternoon GJ , you now have my undivided attention, well until I go out in 1 hour :beer:. I lied earlier I had Puppy on my Xboot stick , but the better news was it don't work:rotfl:.
It stalls on searching for file-systems (I assume it is the .sfs). So
I went and downloaded the 528 lucid version (from the .nl mirror it's quicker) Whacked it into Xboot as puppy tested it with qemu result ...ok. So out comes the netbook and in goes the stick , Selected new version of Puppy and voila it boots no probs (well except the Netbook has a realtek wireless card and that won't work without samsung tools , so I need to frig that iso grrr.) Any hows hope this helps DCM

GunJack

cheers DCM, most interesting..... I tried the 528 puppy initially, and when it didn't work I went back to .501 (that I normally use) and it still wouldn't s0ddin' work :mad:

couple of points, which bootloader did you use, and what else was in your Xboot composite with puppy??

debitcardmayhem

GunJack wrote: »

cheers DCM, most interesting..... I tried the 528 puppy initially, and when it didn't work I went back to .501 (that I normally use) and it still wouldn't s0ddin' work :mad:

couple of points, which bootloader did you use, and what else was in your Xboot composite with puppy??

Syslinux

### MENU START 
LABEL - 
MENU LABEL Puppy Linux 
LINUX /boot/syslinux/grub.exe 
APPEND --config-file="ls /images/puppy.iso || find --set-root /images/puppy.iso;map --heads=0 --sectors-per-track=0 /images/puppy.iso (0xff) || map --heads=0 --sectors-per-track=0 --mem /images/puppy.iso (0xff);map --hook;chainloader (0xff)" 
TEXT HELP 
ENDTEXT 
### MENU END

I got dsl , Hirens, Gparted, ubuntu Win 7 32/64 repair discs,trueimage,systemrescuecd,parted magic
and a v520 puppy which doesn't work

GunJack

hhmmm....think I'll have to give it another try....... cheers mate, will report back when done (but may not be until tomorrow now...)

GunJack

Yay !!! just rebuilt it again, and puppy 528 just worked, just like that!!! It's even used my savefiles from 501, so speedy bootup

Gawd-knows what went different this time to last week, but I'm impressed

...only thing now is I'll have to rebuild it with hiren's v12, coz v15 ain't so good...

even the networking worked first go

debitcardmayhem

GunJack wrote: »

Yay !!! just rebuilt it again, and puppy 528 just worked, just like that!!! It's even used my savefiles from 501, so speedy bootup

Gawd-knows what went different this time to last week, but I'm impressed

...only thing now is I'll have to rebuild it with hiren's v12, coz v15 ain't so good...

even the networking worked first go

Good, oh and git

GunJack

:rotfl: @ DCM last week it bl00dy wouldn't