I multiboot between Xubuntu, PE, various floppy images and GParted, Puppy Linux and Rescue Linux on my 8gb USB pen drive. Everything works fine but my root directory is getting pretty choked with files. I understand that GRUB4DOS can use subdirectories, what I don't understand is how to make the Linux OS understand where the image files are.

I've tried to root the image into a subfolder and put all the files there but it continues to look for the image files in the real root of the drive e.g. "/" .


What is the Grub4DOS command / syntax or Linux syntax to make the image look in the specified subdirectory for it's files?

TIA.

Think, this job can't do GRUB for you (like all the other loaders too), because it stands in most cases in the INITRD of the special linux itself. If you unpack and patch these, may be you've success in some cases, but it's also possible in some not.
MfG FM_81

You cannot "root" to anything but a root directory, i.e. :

is wrong.

But you can on most (not all) distro, have:


but in your posted menu.lst you have:

and in following line:


Do have a look here, a few related things are explained:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-tut...blems-grub.html
http://www.puppylinux.org/wikka/BootMethodBackgrounder

From here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=8674
this example (actually for a "frugal" install:

and this one:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=12860
should better show you that it is possible to have the files in a subdir.

As always, try inputting commands one by one from command line, this way you can see how grub/grub4dos "reacts" to each one.

Then you might have some problem with the correct puppy parameters:
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/BootParms

jaclaz