Hi,
it could be more interesting if Porteus could add the required lines in the /boot/porteus.cfg following the already installed OS (on other partitions).
I had WIndows on my /mnt/sda1 and I just installed Porteus on my /mnt/sda3 but I can not get back to be able to boot on my Windows partition :
http://porteus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=1282
Then please help me to be able to do it and update Porteus to be able to automatically detect and change the porteus.cfg.
Sincerely thanks and have a nice day,
Miguipda ;-)
Multiboot porteus.cfg adapted
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Re: Multiboot porteus.cfg adapted
I'll replace "Run memtest utility" with "Boot from the first hd" for porteus-1.2
this option is probably more useful (how many times one is running RAM test?)
thanks for suggestion.
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LABEL hd
MENU LABEL Boot from the first hd
COM32 /boot/syslinux/chain.c32
APPEND hd0 1
TEXT HELP
Don't start Porteus at all, but
rather run any operating system
installed on the first partition
of the hard drive
ENDTEXT
thanks for suggestion.
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Re: Multiboot porteus.cfg adapted
Good idea! Have to say i've never run memtest from Porteus. I always a memdisk boot disk.
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Re: Multiboot porteus.cfg adapted
Addition of Copy to RAM/LXDE would be even more useful - just for safely browsing the internet without unnecessary sesion switching.fanthom wrote:this option is probably more useful (how many times one is running RAM test?)
thanks for suggestion.
Current KDE ram boot is too heavy - mainly memory footprint.
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Re: Multiboot porteus.cfg adapted
@Lukas
i would say that it's a matter of preferences (one could also request text mode + copy2ram, pxe boot + copy2ram, etc..) and editing of porteus.cfg is quite easy so i must say no.
btw: KDE requires copy2ram more than lxde.
lxde is vary fast even without it.
i would say that it's a matter of preferences (one could also request text mode + copy2ram, pxe boot + copy2ram, etc..) and editing of porteus.cfg is quite easy so i must say no.
btw: KDE requires copy2ram more than lxde.
lxde is vary fast even without it.
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Re: Multiboot porteus.cfg adapted
We misunderstood each other - its not about speed, but rather amount of free RAM - i have habit of running 150+ tabs. Yes that much. because i start in the morning and end in the afternoon And after just few hours KDE is a hog.fanthom wrote:btw: KDE requires copy2ram more than lxde.
lxde is vary fast even without it.
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Re: Multiboot porteus.cfg adapted
ok - but my argument about easiness of editing porteus.cfg and adding lxde cheat next to copy2ram is still valid.Lukas wrote:We misunderstood each other
please remember that porteus.cfg is just a sample. users must adapt it to their own needs as we wont be able to please everybody.
and i still think kde needs copy2ram more than lxde (speed is the main factor here) so i'm not going to change defaults in this case.
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