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| Thread ID: 27557 | 2002-11-25 09:56:00 | Knoppix not starting.. | SKT174 (1319) | Press F1 |
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| 101347 | 2002-11-25 09:56:00 | Knoppix actually started on one of my machines but won't start on the one with RAID controller .. any ideas? :( | SKT174 (1319) | ||
| 101348 | 2002-11-25 12:20:00 | Do you run the CDROM drives off RAID controllers? This isn't recommended but I think you could still get away with running the CDROM drives but you'll have no luck booting from them. Reason is your RAID controllers can only be setup to tell which hard drive should be used for boot and I don't know if the CDROM drive would be able to do this. Depending on your RAID the Linux Kernel may not have support for the type of RAID controllers you use. I know that it's supports some Highpoint controllers and most likely Promise controllers too. |
~qwerty (2369) | ||
| 101349 | 2002-11-25 21:08:00 | that's the part i don't understand .. Only 2 HDDs are on those RAID controllers .. the CD ROMs are on those EIDE on the motherboard ... | SKT174 (1319) | ||
| 101350 | 2002-11-25 21:13:00 | That is strange . You don't need Hard Drives for Knoppix to work so the RAID controllers don't need to be there . I think there's a problem with booting from CDROM . Have you looked in your BIOS and made the changes to make CDROM boot before Hard Drives . |
~qwerty (2369) | ||
| 101351 | 2002-11-25 21:28:00 | i did .. sorry for not being clear ... the CD actually booted and i can see the cute penguin icon and about 5 seconds it will stop .. i forgot the message but seems like can't mount the hdd .. | SKT174 (1319) | ||
| 101352 | 2002-11-25 21:50:00 | I'm sure you don't need Hard Drives for Knoppix to work. It's possibly a problem with mounting the RAMDisk or Swap drive. How much RAM do you have? At the boot prompt type knoppix mem=xM (and any other commands you may use) x being the number of MBs of RAM you have and make sure you use a capital M after it. It's case sensitive. Only reason why Knoppix would require using the hard drive is because you don't have enough RAM to run Knoppix so it would need some sort of Swap Partition. |
~qwerty (2369) | ||
| 101353 | 2002-11-25 22:42:00 | I've 512MB RAM so ... I don't think it needs the swap file .. anyway, I'll go home tonight and try again and I will post the exact msg here .. thx for yr help so far :) | SKT174 (1319) | ||
| 101354 | 2002-11-26 02:06:00 | You've got to remember that Knoppix is a "live CD". It can't handle every combination of hardware. The one on the PC World CD is a cutdown version, too, because there seems to be an idea that the Windows people might not like having the whole CD devoted to Linux. ;-) Ther might be a boot option which will get you past the failure point. Or there might not be. :D |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 101355 | 2002-11-26 02:38:00 | If you wanna try the whole Knoppix - check out NZ_Liam's Website: http://www.linux-shop.co.nz Cheers Chilling_Silence |
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| 101356 | 2002-11-26 06:24:00 | Try a boot disc. My old clunker is supposed to be able to boot from CD too but won't with Knoppix | Rod ger (316) | ||
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