Can't boot from CD-ROM on IBM Thinkpad T40

**bwa** · 10-17-2003, 11:42 PM

New to Knoppix, please forgive if this has been covered too often.

Trying to use Knoppix on a new IBM Thinkpad T40 (type 237392U) to shrink the NTFS partition with XP in order to install Linux. Can't even boot from the Knoppix v3.3 2003-09-22 CD-ROM, getting errors-
scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: 0x03 00 00 40 00
Current sd0b:00: sns = 70 3
....
cloop: Read error at pos 10205664 in file /cdrom/KNOPPIX/NKOPPIX, 28756 bytes lost.
...

Have read the docs and tried the cheatcode 'knoppix testcd', but it reports all is fine; md5sum also checks out OK; even booted an older Thinkpad T20 to Knoppix with the same CD without problem. The CD-ROM drive on the T40 is a Matshita UJDA745 DVD/CDRW. Any suggestions?

**rickenbacherus** · 10-18-2003, 05:26 AM

Try booting with noscsi or even failsafe

**bwa** · 10-20-2003, 06:11 PM

Thanks for the suggestion, but noscsi and failsafe don't work either. I'm starting to think the problem is with the CD itself (eventhough it can be read on a different laptop). Will have to burn another CD to see.

**rickenbacherus** · 10-20-2003, 11:40 PM

It seems that perhaps your cdrom drive is causing the problems. (just a guess). It is possible to copy the KNOPPIX compressed file system to hdd and boot it w/ a floppy disk. Don't know if that's an option for you or not.