Knoppix 3.6: at boot prompt, the only first argument works

[vega1970]

It's strange. I just copied the new Knoppix 3.6 on a FAT32 partition using
the boot command "knoppix tohd=/dev/hda2". I also installed a
Persistent Home on the same partition.

Now, I'm not able to boot it correctly. I boot from the CD and type a
"boot command". It looks like the boot command only works correctly when
there's only one (or no) argument.

For instance,

- If I type "knoppix lang=be", it boots from the CD without the PH and I get
my Belgian keyboard.
- If I type "knoppix fromhd=/dev/hda2", it boots from the HDD without
the PH and I get a us keyboard.
- If I type "knoppix home=/dev/hda2", it boots from the CD and I get my
persistent home. The keyboard is an US one.
- If I type "knoppix lang=be home=/dev/hda2 fromhd=/dev/hda2", it
doesn't boot. I get a message "can't find knoppix CD root".
- If I type "knoppix fromhd=/dev/hda2 home=/dev/hda2 lang=be", it
boots from the HDD, but without the PH and with a US keyboard ...
exactly as if I had only typed "knoppix fromhd=/dev/hda2".

It is as if the first argument is the only one to be interpreted correctly.
What am I doing wrong ? Should I separate the argument with another
character then the "space" ?? Should I quote the arguments ??
What's the correct syntax ?

knoppix "fromhd=/dev/hda2 home=/dev/hda2 lang=be" ??
knoppix fromhd=/dev/hda2\ home=/dev/hda2\ lang=be ??
knoppix "fromhd=/dev/hda2" "home=/dev/hda2" "lang=be" ??

Thanks in advance ....

-Vincent

[eco2geek]

Don't use quotes -- " " -- or backslashes -- \ -- just type in your cheatcodes separated by a space! :wink:

knoppix fromhd=/dev/hda2 lang=be keyboard=be

AFAIK, you're going to have to save your persistent home to another partition than the one you're loading the Knoppix image from. Even though I'm having an argument over whether you can use "fromhd" and then mount the partition the image is on in read-write mode (in this thread (http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13018)), I don't think you can load the image and a persistent home from the same partition.