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Posted: Jan. 15 2006,17:27 QUOTE
I'm trying to boot from a CD (dsl-2.1b.iso) and it freezes at the very beginning, when "Checking for for USB..." is displayed.  Hm.. help?
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Posted: Jan. 15 2006,20:25 QUOTE
Hi, Qwertie -

I'm pretty new to Linux myself, and I just downloaded the ISO today and had the same problem getting it to work on my old Gateway Solo 5100 laptop. I snooped a bit online and found that for some systems, the startup BIOS config utility has an option for whether the system is Plug-n-Play compatable. I changed my PNP setting from yes to no, saved it & restarted. Now I've got DSL running from the CD, and it looks pretty fast for this legacy system. However, I'm still trying to figure out how to get the mouse and PCMIA Wireless card to work correctly. At any rate, I hope this helps.

Happy Linuxing!

Marc
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Posted: Jan. 15 2006,22:03 QUOTE
In contrast, I have a pretty new system (P4 3GHz, 512MB, 80gig, etc...) and in my BIOS, "Plug & Play OS" is already set to "No".

The reason I'm booting Knoppix is that Windows won't start due to an apparently corrupt registry (blue screen C0000218).  Other than that problem, I have no reason to believe anything is wrong with my system.

I tried "failsafe" mode, but got the following error message:

Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry.
Dropping you to a (very limited) shell.
Press reset button to quit.

I don't think I can do anything from that shell... even the 'ls' command is "not found".
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Posted: Jan. 16 2006,01:46 QUOTE
I have exactly the same problem on my Toshiba Satellite M40.

Immediately after checking USB and saying "Done" it freezes on the 2.1b live CD - I thought it was only me.  Whew!!
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Posted: Jan. 16 2006,04:13 QUOTE
Quote (Qwertie @ Jan. 15 2006,17:03)
In contrast, I have a pretty new system (P4 3GHz, 512MB, 80gig, etc...) and in my BIOS, "Plug & Play OS" is already set to "No".

The reason I'm booting Knoppix is that Windows won't start due to an apparently corrupt registry (blue screen C0000218).  Other than that problem, I have no reason to believe anything is wrong with my system.

I tried "failsafe" mode, but got the following error message:

Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry.
Dropping you to a (very limited) shell.
Press reset button to quit.

I don't think I can do anything from that shell... even the 'ls' command is "not found".

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I tried "failsafe" mode, but got the following error message:

Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry.
Dropping you to a (very limited) shell.
Press reset button to quit.


Tried that and got the same result .... seems like we are having the same issues.  My Toshiba Satellite is running a Pentium M processor 1.86Ghz, and is pretty up to date.

What comes after USB on the load?  If we knew that, perhaps we could figure out what was failing, and causing it to freeze?
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