On 5/10/05, Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 10 May 2005 11:06 am, Bob Therina wrote: > > > On 5/10/05, Scott Granneman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Bob Therina wrote: > >> > >>> On 5/9/05, Scott Granneman <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > >>> > >>>> On Monday 09 May 2005 10:08 am, Bob Therina wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> I took a brief look at a couple (Auditor and Helix) but to use > >>>>> Auditor > >>>>> I had to use 800x600 to get it to boot all the way. With > >>>>> Knoppix-STD, > >>>>> it starts to boot then at some point when I think x is suppose to > >>>>> start, my monitor says it's receiving no signal then turns > >>>>> off. :^( > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> weird. mine all worked perfectly! > >>>> > >>>> scott > >>>> > >>> > >>> The first thing that comes up with knoppix-std is the penguin > >>> followed > >>> by "error: only one processor found" then it goes through what looks > >>> like the regular boot up but when it gets to starting x11, the > >>> screen > >>> goes blank and then my monitor says no signal and then shuts off. > >>> The > >>> MD5 checked out in k3b when I burned it. I'm going to try using the > >>> torrent download and see if it finds a problem and fixes the > >>> original > >>> iso. > >>> > >>> Bob > >>> > >> > >> are there cheatcodes you could try? usually you press F1 or F2 or F3. > >> > >> scott > >> > > > > F2 gives a list of options and I tried a couple that looked like they > > might have an effect such as changing the resolution with no luck. I > > don't know what the frame buffer would do. I tried redowloading with > > bit torrent and it didn't find any problems as it first examined the > > iso that I already had. I always run into something funky with this > > machine. I had a usb stick that works everywhere else but would make > > it reboot when plugged in and another stick that works fine. > > > > I suppose, considering I don't know anything about any of these tools > > in the first place, that I have plenty to learn from the distro's that > > do work but, it would be nice to check out the knoppix one too. Maybe > > I'll go through the cheat codes more when I get a chance. > > > > Bob > > > > Here are the cheatcodes for Knoppix 3.8.1: > > http://download.linuxtag.org/knoppix/knoppix-cheatcodes.txt > > A quick look through the FAQ suggests that Knoppix-STD uses the same > cheatcodes: > > http://www.knoppix-std.org/faq.html > > So, to start you could boot into text mode using: > > boot: knoppix 2 > > if that doesn't work, start playing with some of the other cheatcodes > to narrow down where the error is. My usual route is to try these > boot parameters in order: > > knoppix 2 > failsafe > knoppix init=/bin/bash > knoppix noapic noagp noapm noaudio noddc nopcmcia noscsi noswap > nousb nousb2 pnpbios=off acpi=off vga=normal 2 > > I wish there was a shortcut for that last one, which is basically > turn everything off. But alas, no. I thought that maybe "knoppix - > b" might do it, but it doesn't. > > Good luck and let us know what you discover. > > Regards, > - Robert > http://www.cwelug.org/downloads > Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS > for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent > > _______________________________________________ > CWE-LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.cwelug.org/ > http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ > http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/ >
Thanks Robert, I used the failsafe parameter and it worked like a charm. I thought I tried that yesterday but, apparently I didn't. thanks, Bob _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
