Knoppix on my laptop

[jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org (Jarod Wilson)]

On Jul 14, 2007, at 16:51, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> 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
>> running Ubuntu 7.04, refuses to let Knoppix run on it.   Both the  
>> Knoppix
>> 5.0.1 DVD and 5.1.1 CD freeze the system at checking /dev/hda for  
>> Knoppix
>> CD.
>>
>> I've seen this kind of thing happen before on other systems, but
>> eventually the check would find the disk and continue with  
>> booting.  I
>> think I've let it sit there for 30 minutes at one point with no  
>> change.
>>
>> The Compaq is obviously new enough (purchased new a couple years  
>> ago) that
>> Knoppix should have *no* problems.
>>
>> 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).

It could be that the latest knoppix is using the new libata stack,  
instead of the old pata drivers, and the new libata driver for your  
pata chipset isn't being automagically loaded. Exactly how to fix  
that, if it is the case, I don't know offhand...

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Jarod Wilson
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