Hi all,

just wasted a whole day, evening and night to figure out, that I need

knoppix noscsi nousb nodhcp

to boot Knoppix succesfully.

Please accept my complains: the method of hardware detection used in
Knoppix is VERY unfriendly, when problems arise!

What I expected (and would have saved me several hours of failed reboot attempts) is an option to show, what Knoppix is actually trying to do instead of that STUPID green progress bar, which carries no more information than (working|hanging|looping).

The problem was, that the Knoppix boot did hang (or loop) many times, most often while autodetecting, but also after the boot sequence and after the message: 'entering runlevel 5'. This last problem seems to be related to the attempt to get DHCP info from nowhere (eth0 found, but was disconnected).

The advice, to boot with:

knoppix lang=<whatever> vga=normal xmodule=vesa \
nosound \
noapic \
noscsi \
nodma \
noapm \
nousb \
nopcmcia \
nofirewire \
noagp \
nomce \
nodhcp

then step by step removing one or the other option and rebooting until
Knoppix successfully starts was the way to I had to choose.

Are you (Mr. Knopper) serious? Did you try this yourself on a system with problems? When you simply could have turned on USEFULL messages instead of a green bar?

And, the possible options to use ain't documented completely/consistent
either. I found e.g. these (in various docs):

nosmp
noswap
noddc
noaudio

Are they valid? What do they mean?

And: there is no doc whatsoever about their meaning! Ok, even a 'normal' user might know nowadays, what 'USB' is (in terms of what to buy in a store and how to plug in a cable). But you expect a typical Windoof user to know, what 'smp', 'swap', 'ddc', 'mce' or 'apic' is?

Isn't it, that Knoppix should blame M$ and be better in hardware detection then every other system?

Then, please, support willing people with more than a Windows-like green bar.

No questions to answer this time. Comments are welcome.

Yours

Georg Rehfeld

PS: My system in short, when neccessary I'll give details:

- Intel PIII
- Intel board
- standard SCSI PCI card
- USB on board
- standard Ethernet card, not connected