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Am I missing something?
I am trying to boot up an Omnibook 4150 laptop with V3.3, and I keep getting the same result: No boot, no Knoppix screen,- just the Omnibook startup logo and then a black screen with a little blinking fake cursor, which doesn't actually register keystrokes, and beeps at me if I try to enter anything.
I've waited over an hour to see if it was just a slow startup, but there is no change.
I made sure that the boot order starts with CDROM. What am I missing?
Please help!
Hi,
is there an OS on your harddisk? Maybe your computer tries to boot a missing OS from there. I have an Omnibook to, during BIOS startup I am able to change the boot order (via ESC). Another change is to update your BIOS (check www.hp.com).
Good Luck,
Al
Thanks for the suggestion.
The laptop has Win2000, but it crashed a while ago during a service pack upgrade, and now it won't boot. Now I'm trying to rescue data before installing Linux.
I changed the hardware boot order but it hasn't helped.(Is there such a thing as OS boot order?)
I'll see if HP can help me. Thanks
does the CD work on a different computer?
if not try replacing it
I tried this CD on two laptops (both were Japanese Windows OS machines) and got the same result. I also tried multiple CD's on my machine, and got the same result. I was worried about breaking a friend's laptop (I know, it should be impossible, but...) so I didn't spend a lot of time testing on different machines.
Should I think about opening the case and making sure that the CPU is seated properly, or some other hardware problem?
I think a good idea would be to find a Knoppix CD that boots successfully on a different computer and take this CD for your laptop. Did you burn the CD by yourself? In this case you know that you have not to burn the *.iso file as a simple file on your CD. For Nero (M*cr*$*ft W*nd*ws) for example there is a special option, something like "burn an ISO Image".Quote:
Originally Posted by pulling
Okay, you were right all along. I didn't know how to use my cd burning software, and I was trying to create a bootable disk rather than an image.
I am up and running, and it is making me very happy.
Thanks for your patient help!
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Originally Posted by pulling
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please try :
knoppix noagp
or
knoppix noscsi
but HP 4150 has no sound. if you figure out, please let me know.
Excellent: "knoppix noagp" worked on my Omnibook 4150 too, thanks!Quote:
please try :
knoppix noagp
or
knoppix noscsi
but HP 4150 has no sound. if you figure out, please let me know.
(with Knoppix 3.3)
I got sound going by opening a shell once it had booted, and typing:
Kind of long-winded, but it works! The 'soundcore' and 'sound' modules were already loaded on mine - so you can probably do away with these two commands. Maybe the others can be simplified too, haven't played too much with that. Maybe they can be loaded at boot time also?Code:sudo su
insmod soundcore
insmod sound
insmod mpu401
insmod opl3 io=0x388
insmod ad1848 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0