Hello,
I believe I've had some form of hardware failure and I wonder if there is a way to track it down with Knoppix.
My Knoppix HD install simply will not boot (hangs when X attempts to launch) and booting off the CD is unsuccessful as well.
I can boot Knoppix off the CD in failsafe mode. The question is, what do I do after that to figure out what's causing the failure?
Thanks,
- CG, not a hardware guy.
On Sunday 10 October 2004 11:18 am, Coffee Grounds wrote:
My Knoppix HD install simply will not boot (hangs when X attempts to launch) and booting off the CD is unsuccessful as well. I can boot Knoppix off the CD in failsafe mode.
Sounds to me like Knoppix doesn't like your video card. You might consider the Xwindows documentation at tldp.org. Install knoppix (or some other flavor of debian) in text mode and work out the GUI after you're up.
If you're not that ambitious, you might try the live CD from some other distro like SuSE or Mandrake and see if they auto-detect your hardware any better. Mandrake, SuSE and RedHat have tended to be a little more current on drivers than debian, but Knoppix has always done amazingly well.
I was surprized myself when it wouldn't work with the GUI on my system at work, which was built to run linux (A Rage XL AGP 2X, which should be common enough...), but I didn't persue it because I only needed text mode anyway.
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Coffee Grounds -
Jonathan Hutchins