Upgrade to Pathpilot 2

I'm having trouble too! I can't seem to get the PP2 USB to boot on my machine. I didn't have a problem with the 1.82 DVD reading the R1 system. Any thoughts?

bill a

Hey bill!

I just installed pp2 on my non-tormach mill.

Pretty difficult and I only have it getting through to the main screen with very limited functionality. Have to figure out the pins now.

Any way, to enable pp2 USB dongle to install on my system I had to enable EFI boot. (In the bios) I had it set to just legacy but after a few reboots I started trying different things.

Also if you have multiple HDD's you need to unplug all but the one you want to install. It will error out otherwise.

I'm on a 5i25/7i77 with servos. I really wish they would stay away from so much py scripting and enable full linuxcnc capabilities.

I wound up downloading the trial version of R-Drive Image on windows and used it with the PP2 USB Thumbdrive to extract PP2 to a 32GB USB Stick. It created a bootable USB with 3 partitions. I used GParted to create additional 3 partitions on my dualboot Opensuse/Windows system. I then used DD to copy the partitions from the USB Stick to the newly created partitons. I ran the Grub bootloader and rebooted. I now have a triple boot system with Linux Mint running PathPilot 2.
Left-alt and Left-shift react the same way as PathPilot 1.xx. I now have to modify it to run my G540 based ShopTask Patriot.

Good morning Racedirector,

Have you been able to document the process on getting Pathpilot 2 to work on a non Tormach machine.

Regards,
Raul