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[Jonah]

I installed to SCSI, no boot.
I installed to USB jumpdrive, no boot.

Now, I installed it to IDE drive, (/dev/hdb1, reiserfs, grub) no boot.

Version 6.0.1 with the 0wn installer.

I'd like to know, seriously, if there's another installer for 6.x knoppix because this one isn't working worth a damn.

Grub gives me an error 17 with the install on /dev/hdb1

Ok, so trying to post the config and system.map files from /boot failed because there's too many lines (I think)

So here's the grub files...

default

default
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# WARNING: If you want to edit this file directly, do not remove any line
# from this file, including this warning. Using `grub-set-default\' is
# strongly recommended.

device.map

(hd0) /dev/hda
(hd1) /dev/hdb
(hd2) /dev/sda
(hd3) /dev/sdb

the menu.lst entry was

title KNOPPIX (on /dev/hdb1)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 lang=us vga=791 nomce quiet keyboard=dvorak rw

[Jonah]

I changed the "rw" option to "ro" and removed the quiet option to get a report. but didn't get beyond the error 17 message.

Which supposedly means filesystem not supported or recognized by grub.

But it's reiserfs.

Which I know as a certain fact is supported by grub.

When I had tried to install it to the SCSI disk grub found the partition, booted it but I got the kernel panic, not sync

could not mount filesystem on (0,0) because the kernel was looking for only IDE partitions.

The significance of that is, on those attempts grub DID find the reiserfs and did mount it and start the boot.

[Jonah]

Ok, i got one to partly boot, using the highlighted entry in menu.lst, but got to a message

atkbd.c Spurious ACK on isa0060/serior0
Some program might be trying to access hardware directly

The highlighted entry is to boot the link to /boot/vmlinuz in the / directory.

# GRUB configuration file '/boot/grub/menu.lst'.
# generated by 'grubconfig'. Wed May 27 08:44:07 2009
#
# The backup copy of the MBR for drive '/dev/hda' is
# here '/boot/grub/mbr.hda.15599'. You can restore it like this.
# dd if=/boot/grub/mbr.hda.15599 of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
#
# Start GRUB global section
#timeout 30
color light-gray/blue black/light-gray
# End GRUB global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Linux (on /dev/hda1)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title knoppix (on /dev/hdb1)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title knoppix option2 (on /dev/hdb1)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz.2 root=/dev/hdb1 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title knoppix option3 (on /dev/hdb1)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Linux (on /dev/sda1)
root (hd2,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Other bootable partition config begins
title Windows (on /dev/hda2)
map (hd0,0) (hd0,1)
map (hd0,1) (hd0,0)
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1
# Other bootable partition config ends

That's some progress, but still comes to some bottleneck in the init scripts.

More later when I get that worked out.