Re: Knoppix on Gecko EduBook
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Originally Posted by paul_adams777
....Is there any way I can stop the (apparent) video mode switch (which appears to be the main thing that causes everything to stop), such that I can get to a shell prompt and at least probe the hardware in some way?
Better yet, ......
You should be able to get Knoppix to boot into a text mode shell by typing knoppix 2 at the boot prompt. Or hit F2 or F3 and look over some of the other options (you can still type knoppix 2 at that point). Sorry, I don't know your hardware to help beyond that, but you have posted good data for others to go on, hopefully it will enable some one else to give you the information that you need.
Re: Knoppix on Gecko EduBook
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Originally Posted by Harry Kuhman
You should be able to get Knoppix to boot into a text mode shell by typing knoppix 2 at the boot prompt.
Hi Harry,
That got me no further - Tux just sits happily waiting for the second coming. I expanded the line to
knoppix debug acpi=off pnpbios=off vga=normal pc=bios nohwsetup 2
and, while this now displayed the stream of messages, the same "blocks of colour" appears over the bottom of the screen immediately followed by clear screen and then nothing. I guess this could be some manner of a "reset" that goes nowhere...
The last line that either myself or another engineer here were able to observe was saying something about a scheduler.
Is there any way to freeze the processing - i.e. to stall the stream of lines going past such that we have some hope of getting closer to knowing roughly where the "crash" is occurring?
Some success in another OS
Following the advice of a friend, I have had some success in NetBSD - the system boots into X. However, the screen size (1024x600) is not "appreciated" by the video driver, and it uses 168 lines of pixels that do not exist, making KDE "interesting".
However, that is besides the point.
What is of interest is the fact that some readily-available BSD derivative does (at least partially) understand the hardware - sufficiently at least to allow the system to boot without a kernel panic. Accordingly, it may be possible that I can derive some information that may help get Knoppix running.
Does anyone know enough about both BSD and Knoppix to be able to walk me through how to discover what I need in order to "assist" Knoppix in booting?