Knoppix Boot Stalls at Penguin

[mentalalien2002]

I just Downloaded and burnt the Knoppix 3.3 cd.
When i boot from it, a KNOPPIX splash comes up, a few lines come up but then it switches to a screen with a penguin on the top left and a cursor below it. The cursor disappears, and nothing more happens.

Any ideas ?

[mentalalien2002]

I've had a play around with the 'cheatcodes.' This information may help:

When I boot with code all goes well until it freezes at the line:
"scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices"


When I add "failsafe" it gets up to "Welcome to KNOPPIX" in multicoloured lettering, then stops at the next line:
"Looking for CDROM in /dev/hdb'expert'"

[mentalalien2002]

It's obviously something to do with the ide-scsi driver, because an earlier line reads:
hdb= attatched ide-scsi driver.

It always stops when doing something with the ide-scsi driver.

Any ideas anyone?

[OErjan]

try noscsi cheatcode.
boot: knoppix noscsi

[mentalalien2002]

Yep I've tried that and it doesn't make any difference, though I think it should.

Also it's no the CD as it works fine on this comp

[OErjan]

eeeh? do you have the iso on hdd? c:\ preferably. if yes do fromhd noscsi

[mentalalien2002]

No.
I also cant get it onto HD because after trying Knoppix Win98 won't start !!!!!!