-=- knoppix.img not being recognised at boot -=-

I have been having a similar problem with getting version 5.0.1 to recognise my knoppix.img file at boot.

Have been spending most of the day working on it. Glad i bothered to scan over the topics in this forum section before posting a new queiry, as there are some hints in the above that relate to what i've been doing today. Mainly to do with the use of cli options along with the 'home=' option.

It appears that in hotplainrices case it was a filesystem type problem. Not quite sure just what the fs problem was there though.

But i also see it mentioned by Jacky that ...

>>
2) no cheat codes at all always works.
3) "knoppix home=/dev/sda5/.......... does not work
4) "knoppix home=/media/sda5/knoopix.img works
>>

The last two wouldn't work for me, and i used 'dev' in both paths, rather than 'medis'. So i will try media and the 4th option. And 'no cheatcodes'

I'm using a 17 inch NEC C500 monitor, around 9 years old. And a low end 4 MB s3virge Diamond card, (Diamond Stealth). It generally gets me by. But i always have major initial problems with tiny fonts with all the distros i use.

The high resolution default vga state really drives me up the wall. And i can't stand display managers. I insist on booting to the console, and then starting X up from there. Either with 'startx or via a custom script to select an other window manager from my favorite 'fvwm'. Which over the years i have configured into a very low footprint, non-minimal manager. It rocks.

I am not a kde person nor a gnome person but i respect a persons right to be so. But i wont accept those as defaults, as all the distros seem to insist on.

In any case, i have been using '2' and 'vga=normal' along with 'dma' and 'lang=us' with my path to knoppix.img on the cli. It appears the 'noeject' is missing from v5.0.1 too.

So i will try without any other options and see what happens . But if i can't get a readable bootup ... i go bonko.

It has been a frustrating day, but finding this thread has provided some hope there. So i the cli hint is it.

Glad it's fixed for you hotplainrice, but i can't really see what you mean there. Unless your saying that the partitions fs wasn't supported by the knoppix kernel ?

Cheers


jm