On Saturday 05 August 2006 01:20, Ed Jabbour wrote: > (Sent to gentoo-laptop by mistake. Sorry if you get this twice.) > > Both Desktop and laptop run gentoo. Desk will boot or mount a knoppix or > other live cd. Lap, however, will do neither - mount returns "bad > superblock." The lap, strangely enough, will mount and read a Scrabble > disc for Windoze. Same with file -s; reads Scrabble fine, but barfs on the > knoppix. Any hints or pointers on where on the lap's gentoo system to look > for the difference in behaviour greatly appreciated. Thanks. > > --
Can you read (without mounting) knoppix cd on the laptop with something like dd if=<your_cd_device> of=/dev/null ? -- [email protected] mailing list

