Boot problems with Toshiba CDROM-PCMCIA

tx · 09-25-2003, 08:28 AM

Hi cerberos76,

I contacted luelljoc who made the boot-floppies for the portege mentioned above, and we are working on a solution to this problem.

Expect more information shortly.

.- tx

tx · 09-28-2003, 04:07 PM

Hi everybody,

after several changes and a lot of testing the floppies for running Knoppix off of a PCMCIA CD-ROM drive are finally ready for a new release!

Jochen Luell has put the new images up on his site at:
http://www.luell.com/projects.html#knoppix_pcmcia

If you have the hardware, please test these boot floppies and report back to the forum!

I have verified success on my Toshiba Portege 3110ct with the external Freecom PCMCIA CD-ROM drive, using the floppies and the latest (2003-09-22) Knoppix ISO.

On the Portege 3110ct just boot with cheatcode fb800x600 screen=800x600

English speaking users might also want to specify lang=us to get your language and keymap setup since this boot floppy is based on the german Knoppix boot floppy.

Thanks to Jochen for his good work putting this together!

Best regards,

David aka tx

**ewanrg** · 09-29-2003, 12:02 PM

Glad to hear that if you have a floppy drive AND a PCMCIA drive there is an answer.

Any hope for those of us who ONLY have a PCMCIA CD drive?

**drcpu** · 10-01-2003, 09:02 PM

Here is my experience with my Sony Vaio SR-33 (ie., with no built-in floppy or CD-ROM so I had to use a PCMCIA cardbus CD-ROM instead).

To boot up Knoppix, I had to use the following boot cheatcode: knoppix ide2=0x180 nopcmcia

Without the 'nopcmcia', the system will hang after it tries to load the PCMCIA/hotplug manager. Without the 'ide2' tag, it'll hang and sang that there is no filesystem.

I successfully booted it up. I even have it installed on the HDD using the 'tohdd' cheatcode and then running from the HDD with the 'fromhdd'. I also have the notebook booting it up by default after fiddling around with the partition tables.

**ewanrg** · 10-02-2003, 03:08 PM

Originally Posted by drcpu

Here is my experience with my Sony Vaio SR-33 (ie., with no built-in floppy or CD-ROM so I had to use a PCMCIA cardbus CD-ROM instead).

Well I tried that with my Port Noteworthy PCMCIA CD-ROM, and I still got the no file system message with the limited share.

Is it possible that I need to use a different ide2= value than 0x180?

Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Ewan

**ewanrg** · 10-06-2003, 08:25 PM

FWIW I've tried this using the nopcmcia option and not, and can't say that I see a difference. Trying failsafe also fails.

Still hoping for a suggestion.

Thanks,
Ewan

**Warmboot** · 11-03-2003, 05:05 PM

I'm in the same boat as many others here. Is there some option for users without floppy drives?

I know that Jochen Luell created those boot floppies, does anyone know if it's possible to roll those changes into a single live CD?

**crummy** · 01-16-2004, 10:19 PM

I have the same problem, yet I'm not on a laptop - my BENQ 52x24x52 CDRW is IDE...

**Uvegeez** · 01-22-2004, 12:32 AM

The Dell Latitude D400 has USB/proprietary connection for it's floppy/CD-ROM drives. Booting from the CD works but then puts me into the limited shell. Dell makes some USB flash drives that can be made bootable (I know, I tried, It worked) and this may be the answer that this post is looking for (provided that the BIOS supports USB boot). Any ideas as to how this could be done? Tomorrow I will try to copy a boot floppy to the key and I will follow up.

**evilbastard** · 02-04-2004, 01:13 AM

Ive the same problem cant boot from cdrom Im playing with it and watching this thread. 40460XCDT iz my hunk of junk trying to run knopix-std on it. If I get it to boot by mistake Ill post. Im thinking mabey a sledge hammer and alot of anger might solve my problem.