Knoppix on my laptop

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:05:27 -0400 (EDT)
Scott Ehrlich <scott-DPNOqEs/LNQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> My AMD64 Compaq Presario with ATA/IDE CD/DVD factory drive, currently=20
> running Ubuntu 7.04, refuses to let Knoppix run on it.   Both the Knoppix=
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> 5.0.1 DVD and 5.1.1 CD freeze the system at checking /dev/hda for Knoppix=
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> CD.
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> I've seen this kind of thing happen before on other systems, but=20
> eventually the check would find the disk and continue with booting.  I=20
> think I've let it sit there for 30 minutes at one point with no change.
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> The Compaq is obviously new enough (purchased new a couple years ago) tha=
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> Knoppix should have *no* problems.
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> Ideas/insights welcome.   CentOS and Ubuntu Live both boot fine.


I'm researching also. Can you try Knoppix 4.x?
A few options I have not yet tried: nosmp, expert, noapm (although I've
tried failsafe that should turn apm off).

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