Quote Originally Posted by ktheking
People be very carefull with IBM laptops !
I know IBM got series of laptops that got default encrypted harddisks.
The encryption is hardware encoded. (a chip beside the ide-controller).
So be very carefull when testing knoppix (or any other livecd) on a IBM laptop. It IS NOT INCLUDED in the warranty if you f*** up you HDD !.

Maybe it's the case for this laptop ?

If you wanna persist try booting with a cheatcode that doesn't search and automount your HDD ?
First of all... the problem here is the inability read the CDROM... not the hd.

Anyway, there is nothing funny about the hd on the X31. I actually had gentoo running on this laptop for 3 months... Way back then I successfully did a network boot+install off my linux desktop through a lan; No cds required. Unfortunately, I had to format and put winxp back on for work related reasons, and now I'm in a foreign country without access to a linux box... I searched the forums and it looks like the default ISO is missing some usb/firewire storage modules...

I found instructions for building a custom knoppix ISO with the necessary usb modules but as my linux desktops are on the other side of the world at the moment, I can't make my own livecds.

I think I read somewhere that the next release of knoppix may have these modules but it won't be released until end of first quarter 2004....