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| Thread ID: 30174 | 2003-02-12 06:55:00 | Knoppix won't boot | sacants (3154) | Press F1 |
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| 120582 | 2003-02-12 06:55:00 | So I'm a bit late in trying this but.... I have a completely clean (ie only IBM PC DOS) PII 350 with 64 MB RAM and a 4 GB HD on which I'm trying to run the Knoppix Linux CD from the October 2002 PC World. It starts the boot process but I get two unknown bridge resource notifications (and the response "assume transparent") and when Knoppix starts trying to create directories in the RAM Drive the following error appears: scsi0: error on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CBD: request sense 00 00 40 00 Info fld=0x49143, current sd0b:00: sense key Medium Error Additional sense indicates no seek complete I/O error: dev0b: 00, section 493716 The error then repeats over and over with the last number incrementing by 4. Is this a RAM problem? Any ideas how to overcome this error? cheers |
sacants (3154) | ||
| 120583 | 2003-02-12 08:31:00 | You wouldnt by any chance have a SCSI disk would you? Try formatting your HDD with FAT32, as the RAM Drive is a file on your HDD that acts as ram, AKA a swap file :-) Post back Cheers Chilling_Silence |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 120584 | 2003-02-12 10:46:00 | Sorry the ram drive is actually a drive in ram. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 120585 | 2003-02-13 02:39:00 | Nope, no SCSI devices at all - everything is IDE. Will reformatting really make a difference, especially as the RAM drive sits in RAM? |
sacants (3154) | ||
| 120586 | 2003-02-13 02:49:00 | When loading Knoppix on my laptop with only 64MB RAM, it offers to create a drive on my FAT32 partition to act as ram, but it wont work on NTFS... That's what my thoughts are :-) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 120587 | 2003-02-13 03:04:00 | Adding another 64 of RAM to the system wouldn't be a bad Idea either (especially if you plan to turn it into a Linux box). I have a Acer Extensa 501DX originally with 32 of Ram, running X-Windows on it (RedHat 6) was so sluggish it wasn't funny. After plonking in a 128MB module in place of the 32 it ran RedHat 8 like a dream, zipping along really well (before you had to wait 5 mins for the text editor to open). One other thing about Knoppix to note is the PCW version was 350MB. cut down so they could include other things on the CD, where as the normal Knoppix is 700MB and include a pile more Applications (like open office (i think)). Cheers Liam |
nz_liam (845) | ||
| 120588 | 2003-02-13 03:07:00 | BTW the Extensa was 32MB Ram, 266Mhz Mobile Pentium Processor, 3GB Hdd. | nz_liam (845) | ||
| 120589 | 2003-02-13 03:15:00 | From Knoppix.com; What are the minimum system requirements? * Intel-compatible CPU (i486 or later), * 20 MB of RAM for text mode, at least 96 MB for graphics mode with KDE (at least 128 MB of RAM is recommended to use the various office products), * bootable CD-ROM drive, or a boot floppy and standard CD-ROM (IDE/ATAPI or SCSI), * standard SVGA-compatible graphics card, * serial or PS/2 standard mouse or IMPS/2-compatible USB-mouse. So there ya have it, it needs 96MB, which means either more ram (which is a better option) or Formating the HDD to Fat32 (so it can be used to make up the remaining 32 MB of ram as virtual memory). Cheers Liam |
nz_liam (845) | ||
| 120590 | 2003-02-13 03:38:00 | Sweet. Will give both a go. Thanks guys. | sacants (3154) | ||
| 120591 | 2003-02-13 03:40:00 | It says 80megs RAM minimum on the Index page when you boot! | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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