Startup options ?

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Startup options ?
started by: sympton

Posted by sympton on Feb. 11 2004,13:41

How can jump over scsi detection, it allways hangs up on
"proping SCSI... wd70000.o"

Wont go further.. Is there -noscsi argument for bootmanager or sumthing to get past it ?

-Sympton

Posted by hasty on Feb. 11 2004,18:14

type knoppix noscsi
at the boot prompt.

There is a list of boot cheat codes at
< http://download.linuxtag.org/knoppix/knoppix-cheatcodes.txt >

HTH

Posted by Jeremy on Feb. 12 2004,15:24

I don't think the noscsi code works ..

I use it but i can still see the probing.

Posted by hasty on Feb. 12 2004,18:58

Sorry can't help then.
Thought the hardware detection was a straight lift from the knoppix

I think we expect too much from such a pared down distro, but it's still bloody good.

Posted by sympton on Feb. 14 2004,17:02

for me it did work fine

BUT

( my machine has only 8mb memory, which seems to be too less :/ It stuck at the end, and says:
Not enough memory, killing pid (107) sh, and then it realizes, it needs sh, starts it again, and then sees that not enought memory and kills sh again

) etc. etc

Any ways to get it smaller so i can boot it with 8mb memory ?)

-Tomi

Posted by hasty on Feb. 14 2004,17:29

Sorry to hear that.
I think you need at leat 16 mb for DSL if you want it to run with fluxbox (but am known to be wrong frequently )
try booting with > knoppix single < that should at least give you the command prompt.
.
You might be luckier looking at one of the floppy based linux distros such as Mulinux (if it's still supported) which can run with as little as 4mb ram. Have a google and see whats out there........

Posted by lordnikon on Feb. 29 2004,08:05

Hi im having a simalor problem in that i cant get dsl to stop trying to do what ever it tries to do to my network it keeps on faillin then it start saying panic:then it says somthing about operation failed then it just keepson doing that isit user error or somthing or what