Boot-up problem...

**cybergod47** · 08-28-2006, 11:41 PM

When i boot-up, it scans for USB/firewire devies.. enables DMA acceleration for hdd and hdc.. then i run into a problem. It says
"Accessing KNOPPIX CD at /dev/hdc...cdrom/KNOPPIX/modules/insmod: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem. sorry.
Dropping you to a (very limited) shell.
Press restart button to quit.

Additional builtin commands available:
cat mount unmount
insmod rmmod lsmod"

and it wont go any further.... im a novice to linux and command line.. i tried messing with some things.. /cdrom/KNOPPIX/modules/insmod.. got the same error again. cat locked up the command line.. im stuck. Can anyone help me? is my cd just corrupt or something?

**Harry Kuhman** · 08-29-2006, 12:58 AM

Originally Posted by cybergod47

is my cd just corrupt or something?

That or something related to it is usually the case with this error. See answer #1.

**cybergod47** · 08-29-2006, 03:43 AM

ahh... thank you much, got it working now... download was corrupt

**Harry Kuhman** · 08-29-2006, 04:19 AM

Originally Posted by cybergod47

ahh... thank you much, got it working now... download was corrupt

Did you use a mirror the first time? Was the ISO you downloaded slightly larger than it should have been? I had that problem an awful lot (about 50%) before Knoppix started becoming available by BitTorrent, although I've never had any other ISO download bad. BT is faster and more reliable.

**cybergod47** · 08-29-2006, 08:39 PM

yes i did use a mirror.. the file was exactly the same number of kilobytes.. but i tested it again the md5 file, which i've never done before.. and the numbers were way off.. works fine now that i redownloaded it. there was a proble on the purdue.edu mirror i saw though. the iso hosted there is only 490ish megabytes.. while the one im using is 692...

**snakieee** · 09-12-2006, 02:44 AM

haha can you give me the mirrior link im have the same problem...

**Harry Kuhman** · 09-12-2006, 04:31 AM

Originally Posted by snakieee

haha can you give me the mirrior link im have the same problem...

see my first post in this thread.

**snakieee** · 09-14-2006, 12:16 AM

still wont work... can my laptop just not be compatible...?

**Harry Kuhman** · 09-14-2006, 12:26 AM

Originally Posted by snakieee

still wont work... can my laptop just not be compatible...?

It seems pretty unlikely, but you have not posted much information either. About all I know is that you wanted a mirror link for something. I advise against using the mirrors and suggest BitTorrent instead, I find it much more reliable as well as much faster when set up right, which is what I hoped you would get from the link. But the link also gives proper burn information and how to check the md5 checksum to see if a mirror download is corrupt or not (if it's not corrupt then this is no reason to download the same file again by BitTorrent). I think it also mentions cheat codes to get past some boot problems due to hardware detection issues. But since you gave no clue what you problem is that's about all I can tell you.