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Bootup from CD rom Stalls ?
Hi All i am new to Knoppix having used MS products i wanted to try something new. I have downloaded a few copies now of Knoppix and thwy all work fine on other people machines except my laptop. The CD boots up fine and i press enter to carry on with the running of the OS but that is as far as it goes. The screen stays blank and then just sits there doing nothing?. I have read the faq & cheats docs and any other info i can find on the webpages but none seems to provide me with any help.
I have a MESH laptop P4 2.66ghz, 512ram 40GB hdd DVD RW Ram Drive 64mb ATI onboard Video card.
Any ideas ?
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Nice laptop!
Anywaw, I'm more newbier than you so I don't think my advice would do you any good. But I read somewhere that on some laptops, Knoppix only works when it's not plugged in. Meaning the laptop's only running on it's batteries.
I hope this helps.
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Nope sadly still no joy.......im at a los as to what the problem could be
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Senior Member
registered user
Well,
Just to see if you can get into Knoppix - and this is only a "trouble-shooting" test -=- so, don't expect Knoppix to look that great, or really have all the "cool" stuff running - this is only a test to see that you can get into Knoppix at the "ground level"...
At the boot: prompt type the following, and press enter:
failsafe
If you can get into Knoppix, then you should exit from it, and post back results, if you get nothing again, then, maybe something else can be figured out - ( not sure what, but, we can try
)
If you are a follower of Micro$oft and Window$ - the "failsafe" mode in Knoppix is just like the "protected" or "safe mode" is to Windows O$'s...
Ms. Cuddles
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Many thanks i will give it a try and post you back the results, thanks again
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Nope sorry still know joy , i even bought a copy of Redhat but funnily enough it stops at the same point ???.
I have a fairly decent machine i would just like a decent OS on there i am getting sick of Windows. If anybody has any other ideas as to how i can install Knoppix please let me know.
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Junior Member
registered user
" I have a MESH laptop P4 2.66ghz, 512ram 40GB hdd DVD RW Ram Drive 64mb ATI onboard Video card."
What is the "Ram Drive"? If it is a physical device, do you have media in the drive when you try to boot Knoppix?
jimbo
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The Ram Drive is a combo DVD-CD writer and Ram Drive reader all in one it can read double sided DVD's. This is the drive i use to boot up the knoppix CD from.
The funy thing is if i use the same CD on other machines the disc works fine which can only mean there is an issue with my Laptop and i am guessing hardware. Though i did try the no hardware detect option aswell as the failsafe but the bugger just wont go any further after i press enter to load it.
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Senior Member
registered user
Try some more cheatcodes. 'knoppix failsave', knoppix noapic' etc.....
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Senior Member
registered user
ok ,
From version 3.4 a lot of boots are stalling because of the way knoppix can't handle the UDMA .
The only thing to to is :
at boot time type Hope this'll help,
greetzzzz from Belgium
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