hagbard
07-01-2004, 09:45 PM
Hi,
I know this must sound daft, but I'm just not able to get the knoppix 3.4 live CD booting on a Sony VAIO FX101. It's supported by debian and I've tried the following boot options in just about every combination:
dma, noacpi, apm=off, no-hlt
I've also tried 'failsafe' and that doesn't help either.
The boot sequence gets as far as saying:
Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
And then seems to lock up (nothing I've done has changed this).
I know that the VAIOs have funny VGA mode support (I've had to use vga=834 to get linux on my FX805 working okay) but I don't know what mode to use for the FX101 (1024x768) and I don't think it should stop it booting (it only affected X stuff).
Does Knoppix try to use the framebuffer for booting (as this might be an issue if it can't be found) ?
If anyone has any ideas I'd be grateful.
I know this must sound daft, but I'm just not able to get the knoppix 3.4 live CD booting on a Sony VAIO FX101. It's supported by debian and I've tried the following boot options in just about every combination:
dma, noacpi, apm=off, no-hlt
I've also tried 'failsafe' and that doesn't help either.
The boot sequence gets as far as saying:
Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
And then seems to lock up (nothing I've done has changed this).
I know that the VAIOs have funny VGA mode support (I've had to use vga=834 to get linux on my FX805 working okay) but I don't know what mode to use for the FX101 (1024x768) and I don't think it should stop it booting (it only affected X stuff).
Does Knoppix try to use the framebuffer for booting (as this might be an issue if it can't be found) ?
If anyone has any ideas I'd be grateful.