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    knoppix will not start

    I booted an old pc with knoppix 7.2. The pc reboots okay but knoppix will not start. I ran the debug cheat code but the only information I got was knoppix found at /dev/sr0, past mounting /mnt-system, sh: cant access tty; job control turned off. If I try running knoppix manually, it tells me knoppix not found. If I change to the KNOPPIX directory and run the command, I get the same error. I tried the cd in another laptop and was able to run knoppix successfully. Does debug log the startup information to a file I can read? What am I doing wrong?

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    Please try "Cannot boot".
    Be aware, Knoppix is a modern Linux and may not run on very old computers, especially not on computers from the last century.

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    I tried

    • boot: knoppix vga=0
    • boot: knoppix acpi=off pnpbios=off noapic noapm
    • and got boot:knoppix not found.
    • The motherboard is an ECS k7vza with 768 mg of memory, the cpu is an athlon 1.1gh.

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    You have to omit 'boot:'

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    I tried the options without entering boot, no change.

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    If your system has got a free USB port you could use a second system to create a flash install of Knoppix on a USB stick.
    You will also need a suitable bootonly Knoppix CD. After all preparations have been made you can plug in the USB stick and boot from the bootonly CD.

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    Please try starting Knoppix with the cheatcode

    boot: knoppix vga=0 debug -b 3
    from "Cannot boot"
    Each time you can see "sh: can't access tty; job control turned off" proceed with [Control D]. If all went well, you'll get the next of the following messages:

    Code:
    Past mounting /mnt-system
    Past mounting /KNOPPIX
    Past mounting /KNOPPIX-DATA
    Past mounting /UNIONFS
    Past symlinks to /UNIONFS
    BusyBox ... built-in shell (ash)
    Final DEBUG Shell before starting init
    INIT: version ... booting
    Give root password for maintenance
    (or type Control-D to continue)
    Now you will see a long list of INIT process
    (Scroll up and down the output list of INIT with [Shift-PageUp] and [Shift PageDown])

    When you get the message:
    INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
    root@Microknoppix:/#
    type: init 5
    and the boot process will start the graphical desktop.

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    I rebooted with the knoppix vga=0 debug -b 3 command, got:

    Compressed KNOPPIX image is broken: /mnt-system/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX on /dev/sr0 on /mnt-system type iso9660 (ro,reltime)
    [ 6.566185] cloop: Bad file, read() of first 4096 bytes returned -5.
    could not mount /mnt-system/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX. Starting debug shell...
    /sh: can't access tty: job control turned off
    /# past mounting /UNIONFS.
    /sh: can't access tty: job control turned off
    /# Past symslinks to /UNIONFS
    /init: line 973: /bin/busybox: not found
    /# init: line 973: reboot: not found

    I am sure the disk works because I was able to boot another computer with it.

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    I would check the "md5sum" of the download and the integrity of the burned DVD with the cheatcode
    Code:
    knoppix testcd
    If there are no errors, use another DVD drive within your old computer. Perhaps the drive causes the problems.

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