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puppy linux stops during boot with a #
sucks because i just got it set up nicely.
it did go black when it was sitting on my desk and froze to i shut down an now it have this??????
i heard that there is a script to avoid the bad shut downs.
i wonder if it is good to put in since it is an old lap top and sometime the battery dies or the cord unplugs.
Other approach for an occasional bad shutdown would be to save a copy of your pupsave file (frugal install) to another partition. Then if you do have a shutdown prblem start Puppy from CD with the boot option "puppy pfix=ram". From the running Puppy LiveCD open your Puppy partition and replace the pupsave file with the backup copy. Then start normally without the boot option. This gives you a clean system without any remnants of a bad shutdown.
i found this script but i am not sure how to install it can anybody give more instructions on it???? by the way does it work??? or is the better fix to go to ext3 does puppy run on ext3??? can i convert it???
well i need the script install instructions first.
Quote:
To cope with this in the future (as this is repeatable every time I have a powerloss) I added the following to my /etc/rc.sysini script just after the lineQuote:
ln -s /proc/mounts /etc/mtab
:
Code:
#If we were not shutdown cleanly, try and recover
if [ -f /tmp/RUNNING ];then
echo -n "(Cleaning up after unclean shutdown)" >/dev/console
rm -f /var/log/X*
rm -rf /tmp/*
rm -f /var/lock/LCK*
rm -f /var/run/*.pid
rm -rf /root/tmp 2> /dev/null
rm -rf /root/.thumbnails/* 2> /dev/null
fi
#create a file in tmp that should be deleted on a clean shutdown
echo 'this file is deleted during a clean shutdown' > /tmp/RUNNING
My puppy linux box will now boot after a power loss without me having to boot from CD to fix things.
I was wondering if anyone had a better way of doing this?
I guess for some people it might be worth copying the temp files to another location before deleting them?
puppy linux stops during boot with a #
sucks because i just got it set up nicely.
it did go black when it was sitting on my desk and froze to i shut down an now it have this??????
I use full installs of Puppy.
If I do a hard power down and get a # during rebooting, I just type...
reboot.
Here is a link to a new full install recovery method:
i tried adding the lines of code above now i have a mess my x wont start and i got it going on vesa.then i deleted the added code now it is worse i am at my desktop with huge res any way to reinstall the .sys file that i messed up no i did not back it up..LOL
this is getting confusing...I am using ext3 do i still need to clean up after bad shutdown???
what is the simplest way if i do.
the scripts seem to mess things up worse!!!
full install on HD
this is getting confusing...I am using ext3 do i still need to clean up after bad shutdown???
what is the simplest way if i do.
the scripts seem to mess things up worse!!!
full install on HD
Ext3 is supposed to be better than ext2 for full install.
I'm confused by the "new" recovery method too.
I'll just wait till it comes out in pet form.
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