booting knoppix, blank screen at kernel image load

[trotfox]

HI, I have searched around on the net for a while, and I have searched these forums too. I haven't found an answer yet.

I have a knoppix 3.6 CD and a "tiny" laptop
I can not get knoppix to boot compeletly unless I use failsafe.

When attempting to boot normally on with any of the other kernels, the process doesn't even seem to load the kernel image (though I suspect it does). The screen goes blank directly after typing knoppix or anything else other than failsafe. After the blankness there is no disc activity that I can notice, and the cd spins down and stops.

Using failsafe I can boot happily in to X but it means that I have to load most of the modules I want to use, a shell script fixes the tediousness of this but I would like to figure out what is going wrong.

I have tried using the optional arguments at the lilo or splashscreen prompt (where you type knoppix or failsafe etc) I have actually tried to disable all hardware by using all of the listed commands regarding this. However nothing but loading the failsafe image seems to work.


Here's lspci -v

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8605 [ProSavage PM133]
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
	Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
	Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0
	Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8605 [PM133 AGP] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
	Memory behind bridge: e0100000-e01fffff
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f0000000-f7ffffff
	Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

0000:00:06.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics LT WinModem
	Subsystem: Askey Computer Corp. Magnia SG20
	Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
	Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=256]
	I/O ports at 1030 [disabled] [size=8]
	I/O ports at 1400 [disabled] [size=256]
	Capabilities: [f8] Power Management version 2

0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
	Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686/A PCI to ISA Bridge
	Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0
	Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
	Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc: Unknown device 1890
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
	I/O ports at 1020 [size=16]
	Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1a) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
	Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
	I/O ports at 1000 [size=32]
	Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

0000:00:07.4 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
	Flags: medium devsel
	Capabilities: [68] Power Management version 2

0000:00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
	Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc: Unknown device 1840
	Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 4
	I/O ports at 1800 [size=256]
	I/O ports at 103c [size=4]
	I/O ports at 1038 [size=4]
	Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

0000:00:0c.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6933 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
	Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc: Unknown device 1860
	Flags: bus master, stepping, slow devsel, latency 168, IRQ 10
	Memory at 17000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=05, sec-latency=176
	Memory window 0: 17400000-177ff000 (prefetchable)
	Memory window 1: 17800000-17bff000
	I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
	I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
	16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

0000:00:0c.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6933 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
	Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc: Unknown device 1860
	Flags: bus master, stepping, slow devsel, latency 168, IRQ 10
	Memory at 17001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=09, sec-latency=176
	Memory window 0: 17c00000-17fff000 (prefetchable)
	Memory window 1: 18000000-183ff000
	I/O window 0: 00004800-000048ff
	I/O window 1: 00004c00-00004cff
	16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

0000:00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Lucent Microelectronics FW323 (rev 04) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
	Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc: Unknown device 1881
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 10
	Memory at e0001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C380 [ProSavageDDR K4M266] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
	Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc: Unknown device 1830
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
	Memory at e0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
	Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
	Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
	Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
	Capabilities: [80] AGP version 2.0

0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Atheros Communications, Inc. DWL-G650B2 Wireless CardBus Adapter
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 10
	Memory at 17800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
	Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

Thanks for your help

[impure_client]

Hi there, I had the same problem with my laptop, and I fixed it by using

knoppix26 noscsi apci=off

though I've read since that using nolapic works instead of turning off power management, which is safer for the laptop. Hope that helps!