boot knoppix from firewire and usb drives

**r00ster** · 10-28-2003, 04:54 AM

Lincoln's code works great. The only gotcha is if a laptop needs ACPI suport in order to recognize the firewire bus like a lot of the Sony Vaio's. I created a version using Lincoln's code but compiled a new 2.4.22-xfs kernel with ACPI support built in. I can now boot Knoppix from my Sony Vaio PCG-R505GCP.

Thanks for all the help Lincoln!!

**jean** · 11-25-2003, 11:53 AM

Could someone anyhow post an iso
bootable from firewire?

**akoblentz** · 12-02-2003, 07:58 PM

Originally Posted by r00ster

Lincoln's code works great. The only gotcha is if a laptop needs ACPI suport in order to recognize the firewire bus like a lot of the Sony Vaio's. I created a version using Lincoln's code but compiled a new 2.4.22-xfs kernel with ACPI support built in. I can now boot Knoppix from my Sony Vaio PCG-R505GCP.

Thanks for all the help Lincoln!!

I have a PCG-SRX87. It came with the firewire dvdrom and i bought a usb floppy. anyway you can give me instructions via email with what you did and how you got it to work?

i'm desperate.

**MoFoQ** · 12-27-2003, 11:14 PM

got a copy of the boot.img modified for Sony VAIOs?

**thadk** · 12-28-2003, 06:25 AM

Firewire:

(load firewire kernel modules)

The trick is to use the script rescan-scsi-bus.sh on http://www.linux1394.org/sbp2.html if gscanbus and cdrecord -scanbus don't work for you.

rescan-scsi-bus.sh

**MoFoQ** · 12-28-2003, 06:30 AM

knoppix doesn't get that far on Vaios without the modifications.

**r00ster** · 01-01-2004, 10:42 PM

Originally Posted by akoblentz

Originally Posted by r00ster

Lincoln's code works great. The only gotcha is if a laptop needs ACPI suport in order to recognize the firewire bus like a lot of the Sony Vaio's. I created a version using Lincoln's code but compiled a new 2.4.22-xfs kernel with ACPI support built in. I can now boot Knoppix from my Sony Vaio PCG-R505GCP.

Thanks for all the help Lincoln!!

I have a PCG-SRX87. It came with the firewire dvdrom and i bought a usb floppy. anyway you can give me instructions via email with what you did and how you got it to work?

i'm desperate.

Check out my post: http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5916 for the instructions on how I did this. I will be posting my updated HELIX iso very soon. HELIX is my own flavor of Knoppix for Forensics. It will be used for the SANS Forensics Track 8 course.

**r00ster** · 01-21-2004, 05:49 PM

I have post the newest version of HELIX to my website. It is available to anyone who is interested in forensics and incident response. HELIX will be used for forensics training at SANS for Track 8. HELIX has acpi/firewire/usb built into the kernel so it will work on most laptops that require acpi like the Sony R505. You can get the iso from http://www.e-fense.com/tools

**monceffnikov** · 03-25-2004, 04:39 PM

hello istein,

could you please let me know if the iso image of your knoppix remasterised to boot from a firewire cdrom is available on any website ?
thanks in advance.