Knoppix won't boot on my Micron PC

Actually, I just tried using the boot code you provided ... knoppix hangs right after the "Autoconfiguring devices" comes up. However, I have noticed several times that this has happened various times to me tonight when I tried to recreate what I did in expert mode, before it finally worked. Any ideas what would be causing this freeze?

An idea I had for why this was happening is: I have my PC connected to a router with 2 other PC's ... the freeze would always happen if one of the PC's wasn't booted. I tried booting the third PC and then Knoppix booted properly (using my expert mode of course) ... does this sound right to you?

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Originally Posted by Synthpopalooza

Actually, I just tried using the boot code you provided ... knoppix hangs right after the "Autoconfiguring devices" comes up. However, I have noticed several times that this has happened various times to me tonight when I tried to recreate what I did in expert mode, before it finally worked. Any ideas what would be causing this freeze? ... does this sound right to you?

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Sometimes working, sometimes not working. No, that doesn't sound right. This is beginning to sound like a bad CD burn. You may want to test the CD:

boot: failsafe testcd 0

Also, it may be worthwhile burning another CD at a slow sped, < 8x.

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

I have 1 single PC, with ADSL conection, sometimes DHCP takes very long time before going on.

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the freeze would always happen if one of the PC's wasn't booted

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if this happens again and again it can be a reason.

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Originally Posted by tdjokic

I have 1 single PC, with ADSL conection, sometimes DHCP takes very long time before going on.

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Yes, but not getting an IP address should not cause Knoppix to freeze up. In other words, even if the ethernet cable is disconnected, Knoppix should boot just fine.

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

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I have 1 single PC, with ADSL conection, sometimes DHCP takes very long time before going on.
if this happens again and again it can be a reason.

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About how long does it take before the boot finishes, in your experience? Maybe I just need to let it finish?

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Originally Posted by Synthpopalooza

About how long does it take before the boot finishes, in your experience? Maybe I just need to let it finish?

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Here are my timings booting with boot: knoppix debug -b 1
stage 1: 30 seconds
stage 2: 5 more seconds
stage 3: 5 more seconds
"emergency mode": 10 more seconds
runlevel 1: 80 more seconds

So total boot time: 2 minutes 10 seconds. This does not count booting into runlevel 5 (graphics mode with KDE) . Also, this is using Knoppix 3.8.2 in a Virtual PC environment emulating a 630 MHz processor and 256 MB RAM.

What timings do you get?

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