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[Gilles Devillers <gildev AT gmail.com>]

Thanks for the infos sindi. My laptop has 16 MB RAM and only a floppy disk drive so I'm somehow limited to what I can run with it (I wrote and swapped dozens of floppies to install Windows 95 and Debian…).

No, my BL partition was actually 4 GB and the problem seems to be coming from LILO that won't launch at startup.

No I haven't tried, is that important? My BL on hard drive (SD card) actually boots when I use BL3's first floppy to start LILO.

I uncommented the first line of “/etc/lilo.conf”, which is “boot=/dev/hda ### this line puts llo in MBR of primary harddrive”, which would remove the problem of partition's sizes if I understand everything correctly. But when doing so, “LILO” starts to show up at boot, a few letters, like when using BL's first floppy, but then it crashes and the computer reboots and does the same thing again and again.

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Gilles Devillers — GilDev

Le 18 mars 2018 à 22:29, sindi keesan <keesan AT SDF.ORG> a écrit :

My somehow got Puppy Linux booting with grub4dos on a 16GB SD card.  You can boot Puppy from a Wakepup a boot floppy that helps to boot from other boot devices (such as CD if you have one).  It should recognize all operating systems and make them bootable (even Windows) with grub4dos (as found in versions Lucid Puppy or later).  Puppy Linux should work (offline anyway) in 128MB RAM (the maximum for your computer) at least if you tell it not to load into RAM on boot.  You get prompted to add boot parameters.
I don't know how to install grub4dos manually but once it is installed you can manually add additional operating systems by editing menu.lst.

I used to use Pulp01 version of Puppy Linux 4.1.2 in 96MB with Opera browser 12.
It has older grub, harder to set up.  It uses GTK1 to save memory.

About 100-200MB installed for standard Puppy Linuxes, less for very old barebones versions.  I much prefer Basiclinux but BL does not recognize SATA drives or work with recent browsers (they need gtk2 or later).

I think I got grub4dos to boot Basiclinux.  If you have a problem search the archives for how I did it.  I may still have that laptop.

Have you partitioned your 8GB into four 2GB partitions?

Have you tried to chroot from BL on floppy to BL on SD card?

Hello,

I recently got my hands on an old HP OmniBook 5700 running Windows 95 stock. The hard drive needed to be replaced so I bought an IDE-to-SD adapter <https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/AK-SD-to-IDE-2-5-44-Pin-Adapter-SDHC-SDXC-MMC-to-IDE-2-5/32352265334.html>. I managed to install Windows 95 on an 2 GB card (8 GB wouldn't work). I then played a bit with Debian 2.2 (Potato), Debian 3.0 (Woody), KolibriOS and BL3 by only booting from floppies.

I'm quite new to BL (and LILO) and I wanted to install it on my blank 8 GB SD card. The installation process went flawlessly (formatting, writing filesystem then install-to-hd), I installed LILO with “lilo -v” and everything but I cannot boot from the hard drive (SD card), the computer just goes idle forever. I can however boot to the hard drive using BL's floppy 1, press CTRL when “LILO” shows up and type “hd root=/dev/hda1” as the instructions says.

Do you know why LILO won't launch at startup? Could it be because the SD card is too big? I saw it caused problems to Windows, and fdisk says “The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 15634. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) […]”. Any ideas on how I could fix my problem? Ideally I would want to have a multi-boot card with Debian, KolibriOS and BasicLinux but I don't know if I will be able to make it work…

Many thanks,

Gilles Devillers — GilDev <https://gildev.tk/>

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