I find it interesting the diversity of experiances people have been having with the knoppix 5.0.1

Personally, i haven't had any freezes as such, but did have an issue with getting the 'home=' persistance to work. I had to effect it manually via the 'knoppix.sh' script.

And i alwas disable boot time detections for facilities that i don't have.

I feel that knoppix tries to do to much really. As a demonstration disc, demoing all the possible hw and sw inclusions that Linux can be used with/for --- well, ok --- , but it still needs to work in that sense otherewise that design goal fails. And it dosen't work in that respect. Not consistently it would seem.

And also, a lot of posters don't reveal the hw that they have plugged in, so it becomes almost imposible to get a clear picture on just where problems are stemming from.

Very new hw, well, problems should be expected. Unless the kernel has a call-back available to handle its' interrupt, what can it do but hand/freeze at that point. The kernel option 'irqpoll' may or may not help there.

In any case, i recon the big noise should be that 'syslinux' boots for optical media (cd/dvd) is now redundant. But it is still being used of course Ever sinse grub has has an iso 2nd stage loader available -- 'stage2-eltorito' -- there is now an editable cli available applie kernel parameters and other options directly. But it isn't being taken advantage of for some reason.

Remastering is a good fix method but it does take a degree of expertise, and time, so for most people they are left with a disc that ... just kinda works, in a way. Pity ...


jm