Sony Vaio and Knoppix, Pls Help!

Hello.

I am an experienced Windows user with a major problem. Recently my Sony Vaio VGN-A317M running XP crashed and wouldnt boot, cheers Bill. It has very important work for work and work for college on it. It is currently running with 3 partitions, 1 with the Recovery data, one as C with OS and apps, and the 3rd has all my documents on it. The drive is SATA and the laptop has no floppy so I cant simply do a reinstall of Windows, and I don't have any recovery disks.

So I have turned to Knoppix to help me get back my files. However when I use and boot the disk it displays the Penguin logo on the top left, displays some text, then does nothing. After 5 mins the screen goes blank and does nothing.

Does anyone have an idea how I can get it working to copy my files?

Many thanks and I hope you can help!

Ben :D

Try with the cheatcode acpi=off , others Sony Vaio works with that option

Failing that, cheatcode 'failsafe' (not preceded by 'knoppix' as you would with all others) should work. You will also have to[click (partition you want to writee to) to mount it] - [right click (patition you want to write to)]-actions-change read write mode-ok to enable write access.

crasstafari

Can't you F8 into a system restore during an XP boot?

No hence the main problem. Thanks for the help but after having the laptop seen by a data recovery expert who couldnt reover anything. Today it was sent off back to Sony somewhere in France. Hopefully in a week I should have it or a new one back.

bg

I am using Knoppix with a Sony Vaio Laptop, model PCG-Z505LEK. I am also using the (apparently) PCMCIA cdrom drive, model PCGA-CD51/A.

Cheat codes that made it work:

knoppix atapicd ide2=0x180,0x386 nopcmcia noapm



Hope this helps,

--joshua.

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Originally Posted by jnix

Cheat codes that made it work:
knoppix atapicd ide2=0x180,0x386 nopcmcia noapm

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How did you know to use ide2=... ?

Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org/

I just now installed and am running Knoppix 4.0.2 on a Vaio VGN-FS550 (1.6 GHz, 1 GB RAM, dual-boot with XP Pro), with very little problems. QTParted worked just as it should, everything boots like it's supposed to, etc. Matter-of-fact, the only thing I've come across as yet is the distro won't recognize the widescreen on this thing. (*sighs* Oh well, guess I gotta dig into the cheatcodes.)
Anyone know a fix for the widescreen problem?

I'm trying to install Knoppix 6 on a Sony Vaio PCG-3216 with a PCGA-CD51 external CD drive.

I've tried all above and many other things I've found, but somehow after it boots (you can see the linux logo) it can't find the CD anymore. So it boots, and accepts arguments, but after that it doesn't do anything. (I've tried ubuntu too, same problem)

Anybody any idea? I'd love this notebook to run linux!

FYI if you have the same problem: this works:

- Download the ISO, and burn it both on CD and a USB stick.
- Start up the system from the CD (since it won't see the USB from bios), but do insert the USB.
- Now, when linux starts you'll notice it finds the USB and starts booting from the USB.

So, you won't need to specify anything specific, just insert both CD and USB with the same (bootable) ISO and it works like a charm.

:)