no boot at all

[panthip]

I'm runnning knoppix v 3.4 and v.3.6

Both with the same result. No matter which boot option i'm using what I see is the penguin on the upper right but nothing else.

I mean I tried to avoid everything:

knoppix noapic noagp noapm nofirewire nopcmcia noscsi nousb

Not Even "knoppix testcd" or "knoppix-txt" is working. The CDs are official published I didn't burned them on my own so there shouldn't be any errors.

I'd be happy for any suggestions.

[pulsar]

Hm, have you tried 'knoppix nodma' or even 'knoppix failsave'?

[panthip]

Yap. I had tried both. No reaction at all...

I even struggle to get an error message because there is not one single text line. Just the sweet penguin.

When I use kernel 2.6 I get some lines at least, the last two are:


Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
Using anticipatory io scheduler


That's it.
And as i told you there is no difference if i start with any options.[/code][/quote]

[OErjan]

have you tried knoppix26 2 vga=normal ?
that will drop you in a textmode console. if that works we might get some other information that way...
if your answer is "yes i have tried that"i have nothing much more to say.

[Axiomatico]

My friend, well i haven´t boot with knoppix yet, but I can gave you some clues that didn´t work to me but I think they would be very usefull to you:
Try mem=(your ram memory in Mb)M (IT´S IMPORTANT IN CAPITAL LETTER), that´s becouse some systems shared RAM with the graphic card, and can cause problems, other thing is vga=normal, with no framebuffer that´s mean no acceleration in console mode, there are other few things but try these and tell me how it work. AND IF ANYONE CAN HELP ME I HAVE A PCCHIPS ALL ONBORARD BUT THE MODEM. I´M THE ONLY LINUX FAN WHO HAS NEVER USED LINUX :oops: !!!!!!!

Orion

[panthip]

Unfortunatly both suggestions didn't improve my situation.

It freezes at exactly the same position as I described above.

I really have no idea what to do as there is no error message at all.
Hopefully Axiomatico who never runned linux before (?!) has some more suggestions.

I'm getting mad.

[shah]

Try with acpi=off, your problem often occurs on incompatible acpi system.
:D

[panthip]

I did....no difference up to now..

Seems like knoppix doesn't boot at all.

one additional fact:
the former os was WinXP and there didn't occured any problems.

Do we have to surrender where WinXP was successful? I don't think so.

Some more advices?

[shah]

It's time for you to post your pc spec. Your mobo, your vga card, how much memory...etc. :D

[shah]

Another Q, do you have hardware raid on your system?

[panthip]

OK. Here we go:

Motherboard Asus A7V
CPU Duron 650MHz
RAM 2x 128 MB Noname
Graphic Geforce Ti4200 Aopen
Sound Soundblaster Live 1024
HDD 60GB IC 352060AVVA07
HDD 10GB IBM-DTTA-351010
no raid

anything missing?

thanks in advance

[Axiomatico]

My friend. We are like twin souls. I have the same problem as you, sometimes I start to think there is no posible way that knoppix boot in my computer, but then, when I use WIN MILLE I change my mind!!!!!! I´m not going to give up I Will try Knoppix Or Debbian or anything else.

Going to the point, there few more things you can do:

1) Try to disiable in the bios, "asing irq to vga", someone told me that doing this he could boot in a PII with 64 Mb or RAM.(CHECK MY POSTS IT IS VERY WELL EXPLAINED THERE!)

2) Try the cd inother machine, becuose sometimes unless it is an official copy it may be wrong, believe me I work as quality analist.


I will continue serching, and informing you about it. GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!

Helping you is helping me :lol:

[panthip]

Thanks a lot, Axiomatico.

I will follow your advice as soon as I'm at home. Most probably tomorrow afternoon. Will give feedback asap.


Once again thanks a lot for your help =)

[shah]

Another thiing you could try in your bios:
Disable plug and play OS
Enable VGA Pallette Snoop
Enable AGP Fast Write

Good luck
:D :D :D