Knoppix has a great list of what they call cheat codes, some of which
help get around problems like this. For instance:
knoppix no{apic,agp,apm,audio,ddc} Skip parts of HW-detection (1)
knoppix no{dhcp,fstab,firewire} Skip parts of HW-detection (2)
knoppix no{pcmcia,scsi,swap,udev} Skip parts of HW-detection (3)
knoppix nousb Skip parts of HW-detection (4)
If I am having a problem I add them all and then eliminate 1/2 of them till the
problem reappears. Then I keep eliminating till I find it.
A full list can be found at:
http://archive.cs.stedwards.edu/knoppix/knoppix-cheatcodes.txt
No matter what distro I install I always have to add noapic. With knoppix I
have to also put in vga=normal.
One of my favorites on the list is: toram This loads the whole live cd to ram,
making the computer much faster.
Phil
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 09:32 -0800, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Karl Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 2/24/2008 9:59 PM, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> > > Fedora 8, Fedora 7, Ubuntu 7.10 all fail essentially the same way:
> > > the inital boot from the CD is OK but then they can't find the CD
> > > drive to do anything else. Messages like "ata 3.00 failed toset
> > > xfermode" " ata3 port failed to respond" "Can not find root file
> > > system"
> > >
> > >
> > > Meanwhile, the system works just fine booted from its pseudo-SATA drive
> > 0.
> >
> > Maybe you're past this point now, but I didn't see a reply.
> >
> > Have you tried disabling acpi when booting the live CD(DVD)? Something like
> > pci=noacpi acpi=off
> > included as kernel arguments to the boot loader. With a function key or
> > something you should be able to edit a line rather than just selecting
> > from a menu.
> >
>
> I gave up for the weekend, and put the computer back to its normal
> operating condition.
>
> Systems that I have seen with acpi problems have been mostly laptops.
> But maybe that is because most people coming to InstallFests these
> days bring laptops. It's something to try, however.
>
> carl
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>
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