On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:24 AM, phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
By the way, you can find KNOPPIX/knoppix-cheatcodes.txt right there on your CD.
Assuming you can mount it and read the contents.
carl
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