Inspiron 5150 not booting

[iocain]

I'm seeing this same behaviour on a Dell Inspiron 5150 with the NVIDIA Go5200 chipset and an SXGA+ LCD. If only Dell would change the name of a laptop when they totally change its features!

Hi, I've been unable to boot knoppix in my brand new Dell Inspiron 5150. I've tried a variety of boottime options (failsafe, xmodule=radeon, xmodule=fbdev, noapic, 2, idebus=33) to no avail.

In failsafe mode, I see the kernel decompress, but everything stops with:

CPU speed is 3056.5628 MHz
Host bus clock speed is 0.000 MHz
cpu: 0, clocks: 0, slice: 0

Any clues?

[hotblack]

I've got this figured out, at least with Mandrake 9.1 - the trick is to press F1 at the first boot screen, then type 'linux acpi=on'. Everything boots up properly after that. Unfortunately, I *still* haven't been able to get Knoppix to boot, but hopefully this will give somebody somewhere enough of a clue to get started.

Just for the record, my Dell Inspiron 5150 is the model with a 1400x1050 display and NVidia Go5200 video chipset...

[chameleon]

Same here Dell Inspiron 5150 and I can't get knoppix to run. I type in knoppix lang=us then a few lines of text appears, the screen goes black and that's it.

Knoppix on the desktop is a great resource -- I'd love to run it on the laptop as well...

[blaze]

Well I just installed Knoppix On my DELL INSPIRON 5150. It was hard and VERY frusterating but I got it, Although I did recieve errors, Never did I get the error that you got. My error was a kernel panic, but some how it went away! Also had a bit of a scruffle with the lilo.conf needing to change boot=/dev/hda to boot=/dev/hdc, all in all it was worth it so far if you need help maybe I could assist you some how...

[totothehero]

i'm also getting an init panic during the boot. i've tried using the noscsi and nosmp boot time options mentioned in other threads. I was hoping blaze could elaborate on what, exactly, his kernel panic was, and how he dealt with it.

thanks
toto

[redeagle]

hey i have brand new dellinspiron 5100, it appears to load and run knoppix and pclinux live cd's really well

the only problem is it only see's one nic card, the cat 5 card and does not recognize the wifi... this is terrible problem i need the wifi work..

anyone get theirs working.. it is a true mobile 1300, i do have mobile radeon 32, my router is a blitz wifi..

i tried boot: knoppix nosmp

but to no avail.. anyway i really need this to work on wifi if someone knows how... keep in mind im a noob so spell it out for me line by line plz

thank you very much

[lazyevil]

ok. I'm working w/ a dell inspiron 5150, and I got knoppix to work!!

Before I tell you though I think you should know that in California 5150 is a police code:

Q: What is a 5150?

A: 5150 is a legal hold imposed on a person that is believed to be in need of involuntary psychiatric treatment in the state of California. The person is believed to be a combination of 1 or more of the following:

* A Danger to Self
* A Danger to Others
* Gravely Disabled

<a href=http://www.toddlertime.com/5150/5150-law.htm>http://www.toddlertime.com/5150/5150-law.htm</a>


first: this did NOT work with knoppix 3.2 which (knoppix-std 0.1 is based on)

it DOES work with knoppix from las, which i assume is a later version (localareasecurity.com

so the cheats are:

knoppix vga=ext nosmp

X works. Thats up to you and your vid card.
-lazyE

[mue]

Hi..

i'm working with dell inspirion 5150 with NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 video adapter. got LAS to work too. but cant figure out how to get the broadcom ethernet adapter n the dell true mobile 1300 workin :/

Someone can help?

(sry for my bad english)

greetz

[kornface13]

for all you people who say the screen just goes blank, use this cheat code knoppix nosmp . it worked for me, but then while its booting i get 3 trillion errors and eventually it says PANIC: sleeping for 30 seconds, and will do nothing. See if the nosmp fixes your problem and let me know if you have any fixes for me. Thanks.