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Cant Find KNOPPIX filesystem - Booting from USB PenDrive
Hi Guys,
I managed to get knoppix on the USB key (1GB Flashdisk)
Everytime when it starts, and during scanning USB-Firewire, it will return
"Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry
Dropping you to a (very little) shell
Press reset button to quit."
and drop me into shell.
I've treid nodma, atapicd, failsafe, nousb and etc, no luck ![Sad](images/smilies/icon_sad.gif)
Any pointer or suggestions?
Thank you in advanaced for the help
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Re: Cant Find KNOPPIX filesystem - Booting from USB PenDrive
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Originally Posted by
piper
Hi Guys,
I managed to get knoppix on the USB key (1GB Flashdisk)
Everytime when it starts, and during scanning USB-Firewire, it will return
"Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry
Dropping you to a (very little) shell
Press reset button to quit."
I ran into the same problem with a few models of pen drive. I'll tell you what worked for me.
When Knoppix is looking for the cloop in /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX, it may (or may not) find it on your FAT-based flash drive, depending on what case is returned to ash(1) when it is searching your block devices for "KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX".
Apparently you can help Knoppix find its cloop by doing the following:
- ungzip your miniroot.gz (it might also be mnrt24.gz or somesuch)
- mkdir /mnt/miniroot
- mount miniroot /mnt/miniroot -o loop -o rw
- change the case of the KNOPPIX_NAME and KNOPPIX_DIR environment variables in your linuxrc file from "KNOPPIX" to "knoppix". There might be some cheatcodes for these too, in case you'd like to test it out before editing.
- save the file
- umount /mnt/miniroot
- gzip -9 miniroot
- cp miniroot.gz back to your flash drive.
That's it. Hope you find something that works.
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thx for the reply, it does not work, i managed to get kernel 2.4 to work with this but not the 2.6 even if i use same linuxrc
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