Knoppix live CD with Dell XPS laptop

[crgaylor]

Hello,

I just got my live CD in the mail and tried it in my Dell XPS M1530 but I get a message that says:

Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry.
Dropping you to busybox shell.

/static/ash: can't access tty; job control turned off
/#

I am running Windows Vista on my Dell (can't wait to get XP back). Any help you can provde would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Cory

[Clinton]

Cory, any chance you can try the disk in another PC? Where did you get the CD from?

[crgaylor]

Clinton, I tried the disk in a Dell Inspiron E1705 running XP and it seemed to work just fine. I ordered the disk from OSDisc.com. Any ideas on what I can try to get it to work on my machine?

Cory

[Clinton]

I take it that the Inspiron actually booted with the disk (rather than just reading it).

If the disk worked in the Inspiron it's likely it will work in other machines. The operating system that's already on the hard disk shouldn't make a difference AFAIK.

My suspicion would then be that there's a hardware fault somewhere in your own PC. Modular replacement is how most hardware faults are identified. If you get into swapping parts in your laptop I'd start with the CD drive (even though it seems to work fine in Windows) followed by the RAM.

[crgaylor]

Ok, I'll see if I can try that, hopefully it fixes the problem.

Thanks!

[Clinton]

Please do let us know how you get on.

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