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hat_monkey
08-11-2007, 11:08 AM
got this combination:

ATI raedon express 200 with nec multisyn LCD 1525m screen,

knoppix 5.1.1 boot gets to the stage of recognising both of the above then freezes permanently with last line of the boot dialog being a list of screen resolutions that it will use.

I am posting this on the same computer using a linux puppy. which as you can see is able to get past the blockage.

no solution in knoppix offered, just informing those who can do something about the problem.

(maybe it is xmodule=raedon as solution but i am not rebooting at this stage.)

hat_monkey
08-11-2007, 01:01 PM
maybe this dmesg from puppy means sometimg to someone


sh-3.00# dmesg
8192 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 4096)
TCP reno registered
squashfs: version 3.1 (2006/08/19) Phillip Lougher
NTFS driver 2.1.27 [Flags: R/W].
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:08: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 13824K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ATIIXP: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:14.1
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ATIIXP: chipset revision 128
ATIIXP: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf400-0xf407, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf408-0xf40f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: HDS728080PLAT20, ATA DISK drive
hdb: CD-ROM CDU611-F, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hda: max request size: 512KiB
hda: 160836480 sectors (82348 MB) w/1719KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
libata version 2.00 loaded.
sata_sil 0000:00:11.0: version 2.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.0[A] -> Link [LNKH] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xCC802080 ctl 0xCC80208A bmdma 0xCC802000 irq 10
ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xCC8020C0 ctl 0xCC8020CA bmdma 0xCC802008 irq 10
scsi0 : sata_sil
ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
scsi1 : sata_sil
ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] disabled and referenced, BIOS bug
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> Link [LNKG] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ata3: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xCC804080 ctl 0xCC80408A bmdma 0xCC804000 irq 11
ata4: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xCC8040C0 ctl 0xCC8040CA bmdma 0xCC804008 irq 11
scsi2 : sata_sil
ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
scsi3 : sata_sil
ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
PNP: PS/2 controller doesn't have AUX irq; using default 12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI Shortcut mode
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 176k freed
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: irq 5, io mem 0xfe02d000
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.1[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: irq 5, io mem 0xfe02c000
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.2[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: irq 5, io mem 0xfe02b000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
hdb: ATAPI 10X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Registering unionfs 20060916-2203
unionfs: debugging is not enabled
fuse init (API version 7.7)
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISO 9660 Extensions: IEEE_P1282
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISO 9660 Extensions: IEEE_P1282
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: wakeup
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: wakeup
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-2:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-2:1.0: 4 ports detected
usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISO 9660 Extensions: IEEE_P1282
piix4_smbus 0000:00:14.0: Found 0000:00:14.0 device
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] enabled at IRQ 5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> Link [LNKF] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xcc898000, 00:16:76:93:3b:58, IRQ 5
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8101'
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
gameport: ES1938 is pci0000:02:03.0/gameport0, io 0xdb00, speed 455kHz
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
input: USB Mouse as /class/input/input1
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [USB Mouse] on usb-0000:00:13.1-2
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
lp0: console ready
hda-intel: Invalid position buffer, using LPIB read method instead.
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1

hat_monkey
08-15-2007, 05:53 AM
so on consideration, the boot freeze occurs just before it is suppose to scan the hard drives and create fstab, so maybe it has something to do with the bios and password lock on the bios stopping it from creating fstab on the drive.
In this case, it is Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS version GC11010n.86A.031 and as mentioned it is password locked.

hat_monkey
08-15-2007, 06:25 AM
follow the instructions:

output of lspci -v with compliments of puppy linux
(how do you post lspci -v with just knoppix when knoppix wont boot!)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
sh-3.00# lspci -v
00:00.0 Class 0600: 1002:5a33 (rev 01)
Subsystem: 8086:d600
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64
Memory at <ignored> (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512M]

00:01.0 Class 0604: 1002:5a3f
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 99
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=68
I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff
Memory behind bridge: fde00000-fdefffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f0000000-f7ffffff
Capabilities: [b0] #0d [0000]

00:11.0 Class 0101: 1002:437a (rev 80) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Subsystem: 8086:d600
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
I/O ports at ff00 [size=8]
I/O ports at fe00 [size=4]
I/O ports at fd00 [size=8]
I/O ports at fc00 [size=4]
I/O ports at fb00 [size=16]
Memory at fe02f000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Expansion ROM at fdf80000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable -

00:12.0 Class 0101: 1002:4379 (rev 80) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Subsystem: 8086:d600
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
I/O ports at fa00 [size=8]
I/O ports at f900 [size=4]
I/O ports at f800 [size=8]
I/O ports at f700 [size=4]
I/O ports at f600 [size=16]
Memory at fe02e000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Expansion ROM at 10000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable -
-
00:13.0 Class 0c03: 1002:4374 (rev 80) (prog-if 10)
Subsystem: 8086:d600
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
Memory at fe02d000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable -

00:13.1 Class 0c03: 1002:4375 (rev 80) (prog-if 10)
Subsystem: 8086:d600
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
Memory at fe02c000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable -

00:13.2 Class 0c03: 1002:4373 (rev 80) (prog-if 20)
Subsystem: 8086:d600
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
Memory at fe02b000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable -

00:14.0 Class 0c05: 1002:4372 (rev 82)
Subsystem: 8086:d600
Flags: 66Mhz, medium devsel
I/O ports at 0b00 [size=16]
Memory at fe02a000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]

00:14.1 Class 0101: 1002:4376 (rev 80) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: 8086:d600
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
I/O ports at <unassigned>
I/O ports at <unassigned>
I/O ports at <unassigned>
I/O ports at <unassigned>
I/O ports at f400 [size=16]
Capabilities: [70] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable -

00:14.2 Class 0403: 1002:437b (rev 01)
Subsystem: 8086:d600
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
Memory at fe024000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable -

00:14.3 Class 0601: 1002:4377 (rev 80)
Subsystem: 8086:d600
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0

00:14.4 Class 0604: 1002:4371 (rev 80) (prog-if 01)
Flags: bus master, VGA palette snoop, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
Memory behind bridge: fdd00000-fddfffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: fdc00000-fdcfffff

01:05.0 Class 0300: 1002:5a61
Subsystem: 8086:d600
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
I/O ports at ee00 [size=256]
Memory at fdef0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at fde00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable -
02:02.0 Class 0200: 10ec:8139 (rev 10)
Subsystem: 8086:d600
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
Memory at fddff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

02:03.0 Class 0401: 125d:1969 (rev 01)
Subsystem: 125d:8888
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
I/O ports at df00 [size=64]
I/O ports at de00 [size=16]
I/O ports at dd00 [size=16]
I/O ports at dc00 [size=4]
I/O ports at db00 [size=4]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 1


sh-3.00# -

hat_monkey
08-15-2007, 06:43 AM
the two partitions on the disc are both NTFS so it seems to me that knoppix under the locked phoenix bios is failing to access them whereas puppy-215CE-Final.iso from http://puppylinux.org/ is able to cope and be active.

Harry Kuhman
08-15-2007, 07:05 AM
the two partitions on the disc are both NTFS so it seems to me that knoppix under the locked phoenix bios is failing to access them whereas.....
I doubt it, since Knoppix doesn't need a hard disk at all. But to test your theory, remove the hard drive and try to boot. If Knoppix boots OK then I guess it is a hard disk isue. If Knoppix still fails then it isn't the hard disk.


I don't mean to intrude. Up to now this seems to be a private conversation. :wink:

hat_monkey
08-16-2007, 09:57 AM
I doubt it, since Knoppix doesn't need a hard disk at all. But to test your theory, remove the hard drive and try to boot. If Knoppix boots OK then I guess it is a hard disk isue. If Knoppix still fails then it isn't the hard disk.

if you can suggest a way to remove and subsequently restore the hard drive on a public internet cafe computer under windows or puppy, I am willing to test it.

to be clear, my theory also included the locked bios in conjunction with the NTFS disk causing the problem.

there are similar computers to this one in the cafe and others with locked bios have the same knoppix failing to boot issue at exactly the same line causing the boot problem.
one other similar computer but with non-locked bios will boot knoppix but i havent checked what configuration the hard drive partions are using on that non-locked bios computer. there may also be a fat partition on that computer. that computer is being used by someone else at present.

hat_monkey
08-16-2007, 10:21 AM
[quote] that computer is being used by someone else at present.

ok so i have now been able to check all computers i have use in this cafe and ALL are NTFS partitions.
so the locked bios when in conjunction with only NTFS partitions seems to me to be the cause of the knoppix 5.1.1 boot failure.

hat_monkey
09-03-2007, 05:42 AM
curiouser and curiouser, ok so tried another seemingly identical computer in that internet cafe (non-passpword locked bios) and this time it is puppy that will not load completely, while knoppix WILL load but only WITHOUT the USB persistent image. the persistant image causes a hang at the graphical load interface at different stages on successive loads!!! I have mentioned this persistent image load problem on a separate thread on a completely different computer previously, but it is the first time on the computers at this internet cafe!
so, now I have no idea as to the random nature of possible Linux loads.