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I've just download the knoppix 3.9 yesterday and burn the image into a cd today. But when I try to boot it from disc, it only able to reach until the loading kernal part. After that, I just got a blank screen and everything is not running at all. All my disc drive, hdd are not running.
Is there anything different that I'll need to boot up in a laptop?
Try this:Quote:
Originally Posted by Yuanlong
boot: knoppix vga=normal nodma noapic noacpi pnpbios=off acpi=off noapm debug -b 3
If that doesn't work, try this:
boot: failsafe debug -b 3
You can then whittle away the options to find the minimal set you need to boot your laptop.
Let us know what works.
Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org/
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Originally Posted by rwcitek
Robert,
Thanks for taking the time to post a solution.
I had the same problem. The first command set above resulted in something that looked like a distorted, large bar code appearing on my screen. It refreshed slowly down the screen every 10 seconds or so. I let that go for a few minutes but then hit the power off.
The second command set was more promising. I got through a few "exits" and a Control-D. I then got a command line that said "root@tty1[/]". I googled this and found that I had to type "su" and hit enter. I got the same "root@tty1[/]" and then typed "startx" and hit enter. That got me into Knoppix.
However, my touchpad was all screwed up. I've rebooted a couple of times and don't really know how I did it but now the mouse is working......that probably doesn't help anyone who is reading this but hey, at least I can use my mouse now! :P
Stephen
Interesting. So you never got to a shell prompt?Quote:
Originally Posted by Undy
More correctly, you started the X11, the windowing system. You've been in "Knoppix" from the time you hit the Enter key at the boot prompt. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Undy
BTW, you probably want to enter graphics mode by typing 'init 5' instead of 'startx'.
No doubt. "failsafe" uses a bunch of cheatcodes to turn a lot of things off, so I'm surprised your mouse works at all. The trick is to find the minimal set of cheatcodes you need to make things work. Have a look at the wiki page for a list of the cheatcodes each of the various kernel labels uses.Quote:
Originally Posted by Undy
Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org/