DSL cant find knoppix file system

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: DSL cant find knoppix file system
started by: nir

Posted by nir on Feb. 15 2004,22:49

i'm booting DSL from a floppy disk (no bios support) and i get an cant find knoppix file system error.
it isn't even looking the cd rom (according to the LED).
then it is dropping me to a very limited shell.
it happend on another computer.
(both are old: the first is 586 133Mh and the 2nd is a prehistoric 486 so...)

Posted by keepitUnreal on Feb. 28 2004,01:22

I've got a similar problem. I try to boot DSL 0.6.1, with verified md5sum and all that...it gets an error with /dev/scd0 (CD-ROM drive) and cloop.o, then says cannot find knoppix file system. If anyone thinks they can help, I'll get the specific error messages. Thanks

Posted by Rapidweather on Feb. 28 2004,03:07

If you have Damn Small 0.5.3.1 available, try that. If you are using a Damn Small boot floppy, I wonder if your system is finding the cdrom drive, with /knoppix on it. One thing to try is to boot the machine in Windows 98, and see if the cdrom drive works, and if you can open the Damn Small cdrom. If so, copy the /knoppix directory from the cdrom to C:\
This will put a copy of /knoppix in the root directory of your /dev/hda1 Windows partition.
Now try the boot floppy. It should find the /knoppix folder in Windows, and you
should be up and running.
I use that method on 0.6.1, and have my restore stuff on another small partition.
Here is a howto that I put together when Damnsmall 0.5.3.1 was current:
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< http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/general_howto >
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There are lots of things to try in that howto.
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If you can partition a slave drive to use with Damn Small (I assume that you want to leave your Windows drive alone), then there is the new hard drive
install script in 0.6.1:
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/usr/sbin/frugal_instal.sh
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That will involve a lilo installation on your hard drive, and you may not want
to get into that. It won't work sometimes.
More likely than not, on multiboot Linux/Windows systems,
I wind up using loadlin to boot a bunch of different distros on one machine.
Only problem with that, is on multiprocessor machines, I have not gotten the smp kernel to work with loadlin. It's ok with single processor machines, however. Loadlin is not for DSL, as far as I can determine, only mainstream Linux distros installed to the hard drive in the usual manner.
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I hope I have given you some things to try.
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