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morbidpalooza
10-27-2005, 11:19 PM
I Can get it to the boot screen and it starts to load but about halfway through id hange with a never ending error?
rwcitek
10-28-2005, 06:23 AM
I Can get it to the boot screen and it starts to load but about halfway through id hange with a never ending error?
What you describe could be the result of anything from a badly burned CD to flakey hardware to a mis-configuration. To whittle down the possibilities, have a look at the cheatcodes section in the documentation, especiall the Tips&Tricks (http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Cheat_Codes#Tips.26Tricks) section.

As it says there, "tell us which of the above boot commands you tried, and how far in the boot process you were able to get."

Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org
morbidpalooza
10-28-2005, 09:09 AM
I will try that now Be right Back!
morbidpalooza
10-28-2005, 06:28 PM
Sorry that did not work eather I thought the no hardware dection would help but it did not :(

the only thing I have got to run on it has been dam small linux
rwcitek
10-28-2005, 06:53 PM
Sorry that did not work eather I thought the no hardware dection would help but it did not :(

the only thing I have got to run on it has been dam small linux
So you tried boot: failsafe debug -b 3 and you didn't even get to the first boot stage? If so, then I would strongly suspect a bad CD burn.

BTW, what version of Knoppix are you using?

Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org
morbidpalooza
10-28-2005, 07:20 PM
Sorry that did not work eather I thought the no hardware dection would help but it did not :(

the only thing I have got to run on it has been dam small linux
So you tried boot: failsafe debug -b 3 and you didn't even get to the first boot stage? If so, then I would strongly suspect a bad CD burn.

BTW, what version of Knoppix are you using?

Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org

The cd boot's fine on other computers and it's knoppix 3.9 I even booted the hd on another computer with the same cd and installed knoppic on the hd then put the hd back in the compaq and had the same error!

it will go through all the boot process like 5 steps then error and lockup[!
rwcitek
10-28-2005, 07:31 PM
The cd boot's fine on other computers and it's knoppix 3.9 I even booted the hd on another computer with the same cd and installed knoppic on the hd then put the hd back in the compaq and had the same error!
OK. What question does that answer?


it will go through all the boot process like 5 steps then error and lockup[!
OK. So Knoppix does boot. It just that at some point it stalls. The question I have is, at what point? Have a look at this page (http://www.cwelug.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?Knoppix/BootProcess.40CD#debug) which has some screen shots of Knoppix booting up into the different stages. What's the last stage which you can get into?

Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org
morbidpalooza
10-28-2005, 08:26 PM
stage 5 - text mode
rwcitek
10-28-2005, 08:34 PM
stage 5 - text mode
Great. Knoppix does boot and run on the machine. Can you type the following:

(set -x
lspci
) >& post.txt

Please post the output of post.txt.

Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org
morbidpalooza
10-28-2005, 08:54 PM
total mem found 191308 KB

creating ram disk

creating dir's <---------------------that is where the errors start


I/O error: dev 0b: 00 sector xxxxx

non extended sence class


I hope theis tells you somthing and this is on 3.6 3.9 will do nothing
morbidpalooza
10-28-2005, 09:02 PM
now I have a [/]root_ prompt
rwcitek
10-28-2005, 09:23 PM
now I have a [/]root_ prompt
OK. What's the contents of post.txt?

Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org