I got the same message on my 3.4 CD. I thought this should be easy and for non-Linux people to explore Linux without to much hassle. I have seen on other threads about "remastering", but I don't even know what that means... I just want my CD to work
what do i do if i get this error when booting knoppix all I know is it is something to with the hardrive because it dosen't do it when the hardrive is unplugged
"Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry.
dropping you to a very limited shell."
I got the same message on my 3.4 CD. I thought this should be easy and for non-Linux people to explore Linux without to much hassle. I have seen on other threads about "remastering", but I don't even know what that means... I just want my CD to work
unplugging the hardrive works but nothing else i've tried it's brilliant other than that
Hi,
I've been searching the FAQs for days now and can't find an answer to my problem. I am receiving the same error message and the closest answer I could find was that my download was corrupted or failed to burn properly. I have downloaded 'Knoppix 3.3' 6 times from various sources and used 2 different burning programs. I always get the exact same error message:
Can't find KNOPPIX file system, sorry.
Dropping you to a (very limited) shell
Press reset button to quit.
I have tried the discs on 2 different PCs, a desktop P3 533 and an old IBM Thinkpad P2 333 and get the same message with both. The downloads seem fine, checksum works etc..
I am new to the Linux community,although I did have Red Hat Linux on the laptop for a while. I mostly want to learn more about Linux (and get away from Micro$oft) but need the MS functionality until I am more comfortable with Linux and can accomplish the tasks I need on a daily basis. Knoppix would be perfect for me because I can play around and familiarize myself with it and still do my work without disruption. Any help much appreciated.
Dave Lewis
First off: what versions of knoppix are you using?
Second off:
have all of you tried A: cleaning you CD rom laser (they do need some compressed air/ head cleaning every once in a while, especially if in a dusty environment
B: verifing that there are no scratches/smudges/fuzzies/etc. on the disk
C: booting with the testcd boot option
D: trying a buddies burned copy and/or in a different computer
E: (least preferable step) reburning at a 1X speed (preferably on a different manufacture's media i.e. some froma better dye maker *best is Taiyoda Yoden [or something similar to that name, but I am to lazy to double check it online]*, and if you belive that all media is the same, then please go and buy all CDs in the future. There is a difference, but not for most systems, some are very finiky though) (some computer's cd-rom drives don't really like CD-Rs, that can be an issue on older systems especially)
P.s. sorry for spelling/runons, I am very tired in the head but not in the body.
I've got some hardware that is failing with this error message.
Viglen Genie P3 450.
hda is "Maxtor 6E040L0"
hdc is "SAMSUNG CD-ROM SCR-3231"
It runs Knoppix 3.1 fine but two different customisations of 3.4 (2004-05-17) , each of which works fine on other machines completely fail.
dmesg on the booted 3.1 machine shows some errors such as:
"FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature. "
The testcd option has does not improve the situation.
Here is the hardware as indicated by the older knoppix 3.1 that does boot:
knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]$ lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: <available only to root>
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 128
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 00009000-00009fff
Memory behind bridge: f4200000-f5ffffff
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
I/O ports at 1040 [size=16]
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
I/O ports at 1060 [size=32]
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-740C [DS-1L Audio Controller] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 5332
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
Memory at f4108000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08)
Subsystem: Intel Corp. EtherExpress PRO/100+ Management Adapter
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 11
Memory at f4100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at 1000 [size=64]
Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=1M]
Capabilities: <available only to root>
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 5c) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Pro Turbo AGP 2X
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 11
Memory at f5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
Memory at f4200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>
I've just verified that this error also happens, on the same machines, with a commercially produced Knoppix 3.4 CD, so the problem is not the CD burner used the cut the CDs.
I have a IBM Thinkpad R40E that I'm trying to get Knoppix to start on.
The same error happened to me, but using "nodma" seems to have fixed it.
I was having the same problem, but after I deleted and recreated my partitions using another Linux disk I was able to boot to Knoppix and do a HDD install.
For some reason when trying to use my swap partition at the beginning of the HDD it was giving me this error.
If at all possible I would try recreating partitions on the HDD and see if that fixes it.
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