When I try to boot Knoppix on my desktop system I got the error described at the bottom of the page, so I booted with the following options:

boot: failsafe debug -b 1

It took 10 or so minutes of

hda lost iterupt
disabling IRQ #5

hdb lost iterupt
disabling IRQ #5

hdc lost iterupt
disabling IRQ #5

and so on (but it read the details of my hard and optical drives correctly) before reaching:

libata version 1.10 loaded
.
.
.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at bock 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 file system).

Welcome to the KNOPPIX live Linux-on-CD!


Starting intermediate shell stage 1 as requested by "debug" option.
Type "exit" to continue with normal bootup.

I then typed exit and got the following message:

Looking for CDROM in /dev/hda

When nothing happened after five minutes I reset.

Can anyone suggest how to make progress? The CD boots fine on my laptop.


Cheers

Greg



post from a few days ago:



I've booted Knoppix v3.8.2-2005.05.05EN on my laptop (A Dell Inspiron 8100) without problem. When I tried it on my desktop I got:

hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason=0x01)
irq 18: nobody cared!
handlers:






[<c02356d8] (ide_intr+0x0/0x120)
[<c02356d8] (ide_intr+0x0/0x120)
Disabling IRQ #18
Welcome to the Knoppix live-linux on CD
Scanning for USB/firewire devices...... done
Can't find Knoppix filesystem, sorry.
Dropping you to a (very limited) shell.
Press reset button to quit.
Additional built-in commands available:
cat mount umount
insmod rmmod lsmod


etc, etc, etc.
The motherboard is an ASUS P4P800 Deluxe, with a P4/2.6 GHz processor and 1024 Mb of RAM.
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