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I'd like to know if there is some trick to boot a knoppix system with a cdrom connected by usb 2.0 port.
I have buyed a X31 notebook by IBM ed it hasn't floppy only pen drive or usb cdrom...
I don't like too much the idea to extract the hd and install in another note.
Has somebody a good idea?
Thanks a lot
Menisk
Yes you can boot from USB CDROMQuote:
Originally Posted by menisk
You´ve to activate it in BIOS
Your CD should be a bootable CDROM
That's all :)
Hackito
I might be using too old a version of knoppix -
The boot load works, then knoppix (and similarly for redhat7.3) halts, as the OS hasn't yet defined the usb-devices, so it cannot see the cd-rom.
Is there a variant with USB(crom) support built in to the initial booted ramdisk image?
I have exactly the same problem (Thinkpad X31, external usb2 dvd-rw drive). Knoppix (and other live-cds) boot up ok until the point where it tries to mount the root filesystem. It just barfs at that point (error mounting /), drops to shell (ash) and I can't really proceed.Quote:
Originally Posted by raykt
I was thinking I could copy the iso to the hard drive and use the new boot param but before I attempt to do so, does anyone foresee any problems because the hd is NTFS atm? If it doesn't work with NTFS, I will have to repartition and if I'm gonna do that I might as well as install gentoo. argh :cry: :cry: :cry:
Please help us.......
People be very carefull with IBM laptops !
I know IBM got series of laptops that got default encrypted harddisks.
The encryption is hardware encoded. (a chip beside the ide-controller).
So be very carefull when testing knoppix (or any other livecd) on a IBM laptop. It IS NOT INCLUDED in the warranty if you f*** up you HDD !.
Maybe it's the case for this laptop ?
If you wanna persist try booting with a cheatcode that doesn't search and automount your HDD ?
First of all... the problem here is the inability read the CDROM... not the hd.Quote:
Originally Posted by ktheking
Anyway, there is nothing funny about the hd on the X31. I actually had gentoo running on this laptop for 3 months... Way back then I successfully did a network boot+install off my linux desktop through a lan; No cds required. Unfortunately, I had to format and put winxp back on for work related reasons, and now I'm in a foreign country without access to a linux box... I searched the forums and it looks like the default ISO is missing some usb/firewire storage modules...
I found instructions for building a custom knoppix ISO with the necessary usb modules but as my linux desktops are on the other side of the world at the moment, I can't make my own livecds.
I think I read somewhere that the next release of knoppix may have these modules but it won't be released until end of first quarter 2004....
:?
Sure someone will point out if Im wrong BUT
Isnt this just a case of the USB modules not being present...
I was getting a friend to try with the same prob and although we didnt try yet shouldn't copy to HDD get round this....
i.e.
knoppix tohd=/dev/hda1 ??
then boot with fromhd and do the 'proper' install from there??
I'm in the same boat. My Linux machine is gone, and I was hoping to use Knoppix on my X31. Booting off the USB CD-ROM works, of course, but it drops me to the limited shell due to the lack of USB modules.Quote:
Originally Posted by wutwuzdat
If anyone can tell me how to build an .iso image of Knoppix from a Windows machine with the proper USB modules, I'd be more than grateful. (Or, if someone wants to make an .iso for me, I can grab it from them and host it for everyone.)
just copy the big 700M file from the CD to c:\knoppix\ so it becomes c:\knoppix\knoppix and boot with the CD-ROM.
I am assuming your c: is FAT, if it is NTFS this won't work(well may be it would work as the cloop may have been recoded to cope with NTFS, haven't tested that for a long time).
I'm aware of this workaround, but was not aware that it would work with my NTFS partition. I will give it a shot later.Quote:
Originally Posted by garyng