How does Knoppix handle "home=" when booting "

[GCMartin]

An apology to @Klaus2008.

In combination, the responses contained in this thread confused me as it appears that their is combined responses talking about different version of Knoppix with inconsistent functionality. Up until this thread was opened, I was not aware that there are 2 different implementations. and that the functionality of Version 6.2+ does NOT MATCH prior versions. Further, I have not seen ANY information that explains that there is a departure. No documents anywhere that I have seen thus far. It could be more strongly noted somewhere so that I wouldn't have spent the past 3 weeks walking away and coming back and walking away and coming back and ... until I discovered by holding several version up, side by side, with version 6.2+ only to see how signigicant the changes were. ....Sad.

I initially thought, incorrectly, that the Cheatcodes were the gospel that outlines functionality within the Knoppix release. I appears that this is NOT TRUE.

What I have been able to determine thus far after holding versions up side-by-side; namely before V6.2 and after V6.2, is that there is a sharp departure in functionality of this area of the systems

So anyone reading this thread should NOT use its contents because, NOW, with version 6.2, functionality in this area is version specific! As the author of this thread, If I could delete or close this thread, I would now that I understand that there are 2 entirely different Knoppix implementations!

[krishna.murphy]

An apology to @Klaus2008.

In combination, the responses contained in this thread confused me as it appears that their is combined responses talking about different version of Knoppix with inconsistent functionality. Up until this thread was opened, I was not aware that there are 2 different implementations. and that the functionality of Version 6.2+ does NOT MATCH prior versions. Further, I have not seen ANY information that explains that there is a departure. No documents anywhere that I have seen thus far. It could be more strongly noted somewhere so that I wouldn't have spent the past 3 weeks walking away and coming back and walking away and coming back and ... until I discovered by holding several version up, side by side, with version 6.2+ only to see how signigicant the changes were. ....Sad.

I initially thought, incorrectly, that the Cheatcodes were the gospel that outlines functionality within the Knoppix release. I appears that this is NOT TRUE.

What I have been able to determine thus far after holding versions up side-by-side; namely before V6.2 and after V6.2, is that there is a sharp departure in functionality of this area of the systems

So anyone reading this thread should NOT use its contents because, NOW, with version 6.2, functionality in this area is version specific! As the author of this thread, If I could delete or close this thread, I would now that I understand that there are 2 entirely different Knoppix implementations!

Actually, there are quite a few, but 6.2 is the latest one can download now. Cheatcodes are indeed version specific, and included on the disk; there was a fairly big change when microKnoppix was ushered in around version 6.0, so we were telling you how this version works.

[Capricorny]

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So anyone reading this thread should NOT use its contents because, NOW, with version 6.2, functionality in this area is version specific! As the author of this thread, If I could delete or close this thread, I would now that I understand that there are 2 entirely different Knoppix implementations!

As Krishna writes, you have to look up the specific cheat codes for the release you are using. There is a main change with version 6.0, so you should not build on any 5.X or earlier strategies, however well they worked, without checking out that they are still valid. There are changes in the 6.X sub-versions too. I would in fact rather consider this a feature than a bug, as Klaus Knopper does every change to fix problems or improve functionality. But of course, improvement may be in the eye of the beholder

[GCMartin]

@Capricorny. thanks for your insights, too.

Here's what I've found. for the area of persistence, there needs to be a NEW section written. It does not seem to provide the kinds of service that other documents on the internet provide.

The Cheatcodes for Version 6 dated 11/2009 is what I was also using. If there's anything that is the gospel, I would expect that to be it. But, (sad) it is not. So as excited as I was when I started weeks ago, I'm trying as best i can to get the fire back. My problem is that if I cannot get the Cheatcodes to be behave consistent with the documentation, where is the creditable information I should use. So I turned to the forum. But, as you can see ...

@krista - I was able to get a good tohd=/dev/sda6 to work to ext3. The hurdle was that you cannot specify anything other than a device that resides in /dev. When I used a "link" as in the /mnt directory, it does not work even though I found documentation that indicates it works. I gotten so much time invested in all the 50 or so reboots, that I have run out of time to address the initial project. I DVD based system where the user files and configuration files exist on the HDD while the system boots from CD and runs from RAM. This now looks impossible with the NEW version of Knoppix. Thanks for your staying with me and offering your insights, tests, help, and guidance.