no boot at all

**panthip** · 09-22-2004, 11:32 AM

I'm runnning knoppix v 3.4 and v.3.6

Both with the same result. No matter which boot option i'm using what I see is the penguin on the upper right but nothing else.

I mean I tried to avoid everything:

knoppix noapic noagp noapm nofirewire nopcmcia noscsi nousb

Not Even "knoppix testcd" or "knoppix-txt" is working. The CDs are official published I didn't burned them on my own so there shouldn't be any errors.

I'd be happy for any suggestions.

**pulsar** · 09-22-2004, 12:44 PM

Hm, have you tried 'knoppix nodma' or even 'knoppix failsave'?

**panthip** · 09-22-2004, 02:42 PM

Yap. I had tried both. No reaction at all...

I even struggle to get an error message because there is not one single text line. Just the sweet penguin.

When I use kernel 2.6 I get some lines at least, the last two are:

Code:

Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
Using anticipatory io scheduler

That's it.
And as i told you there is no difference if i start with any options.[/code][/quote]

**OErjan** · 09-22-2004, 04:04 PM

have you tried knoppix26 2 vga=normal ?
that will drop you in a textmode console. if that works we might get some other information that way...
if your answer is "yes i have tried that"i have nothing much more to say.

**Axiomatico** · 09-22-2004, 07:11 PM

My friend, well i haven´t boot with knoppix yet, but I can gave you some clues that didn´t work to me but I think they would be very usefull to you:
Try mem=(your ram memory in Mb)M (IT´S IMPORTANT IN CAPITAL LETTER), that´s becouse some systems shared RAM with the graphic card, and can cause problems, other thing is vga=normal, with no framebuffer that´s mean no acceleration in console mode, there are other few things but try these and tell me how it work. AND IF ANYONE CAN HELP ME I HAVE A PCCHIPS ALL ONBORARD BUT THE MODEM. I´M THE ONLY LINUX FAN WHO HAS NEVER USED LINUX

!!!!!!!

Orion

**panthip** · 09-22-2004, 10:50 PM

Unfortunatly both suggestions didn't improve my situation.

It freezes at exactly the same position as I described above.

I really have no idea what to do as there is no error message at all.
Hopefully Axiomatico who never runned linux before (?!) has some more suggestions.

I'm getting mad.

**shah** · 09-24-2004, 03:05 AM

Try with acpi=off, your problem often occurs on incompatible acpi system.

**panthip** · 09-24-2004, 11:24 AM

I did....no difference up to now..

Seems like knoppix doesn't boot at all.

one additional fact:
the former os was WinXP and there didn't occured any problems.

Do we have to surrender where WinXP was successful? I don't think so.

Some more advices?