Quote Originally Posted by eculbert2
The particular file is the 'save knoppix configuration' .tbz file when running from cdrom. Wife is 'bullheaded' and I am not sure how she 'saved' her 'important' files. Silly wouldn't let me hook up the usb cdrom and burn them to disk, so it looks like about 7 months of her 'work' is now gone.

The system hangs at the startx. It looks like it is going to startx (KDE) and that 'short time' blank screen is permanent now, it doesn't finish loading.

I can boot up without the

boot: knoppix myconfig=scan

option just fine, but it doesn't see her files.

There IS a 'knoppix.img' file that is huge..about 3gb on one partition. Maybe that is it, but I don't know how to get it opened. It is on a different partition than the configs.tbz file.

the knoppix.img is the persistant home

Try loading it with
home=scan at boot.

(you can use ark and open the tbz file I believe.)