cant boot knoppix

[oneeyedelf1]

I read whatever I thought would be appropriate on the faqs, but am lost. I can not boot knoppix.
I have a dell Lattitude CSx
I would like to keep pcmcia seeing how my nic is on it.
I am trying to boot via a modular CDROM
how far I get


Welcome to the KNOPPIX live Linux-on-CD!

Enabling DMA acceleartion for hda [stuff(hd info)]
Enabling DMA acceleration for hdc [TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1802B]
Looking for CDROM in: /dev/scd0 (hang)

it does nothing else, please help me

[Mr Ikasu]

I am also having the exact same problem as mentioned above on a (very old) Dell Inspiron 3200.

Any help would be greatly recieved.

[DuckDodgers]

This might help, http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/KnoppixOnInspirons
Also, you may need the right combination of other cheat codes (http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/CheatCodes). A site search for lattitude led to these results (http://www.google.com/search?q=lattitude%20site:knoppix.net). You may find more by using different keywords.

[teknowil]

ok I was going to post my problem , it is the same problem as yours. I have an Hp Pavillion zv5160. typing failsafe at the boot prompt at least it will run

[baxter]

Try cheatcode "nodma", that worked on my Dell Latitude CP. Thanks for the failsafe tip, that helped me a lot!