couldn't find knoppix filesystem

Forum: USB booting
Topic: couldn't find knoppix filesystem
started by: gkojii

Posted by gkojii on Mar. 06 2007,14:00

when I boot my linux from my usb 'hard-drive' (a part of my mp3-player) it loads but then an error shows up with something like 'knoppix file system not found'!

I've tried both usb installment methods from within windows and by copying the iso on it... both don't work

Posted by humpty on Mar. 06 2007,15:30

eh, is this another qemu ?

Posted by gkojii on Mar. 07 2007,21:20

is this what???

Posted by notallama on Mar. 09 2007,15:31

i'm having the same problem.
i'm using a creative zen microphoto. it has a feature that lets you partition it, and use the player as a removable storage device.

when booting, it seems to work fine until it checks for usb devices. then it says is can't find knoppix.
then it drops to a (very limited) shell.

i tried ubuntu as well. it doesn't tell you what it's doing while it's booting, but it locks up somewhere during the process. so it may be the same issue.

it might be the exact opposite problem, but is there any way to get dsl to skip checking for usb devices?

Posted by gkojii on Mar. 09 2007,17:29

I'm doing it with the creative zen sleekphoto

Posted by MakodFilu on Mar. 09 2007,19:22

Try with the rear USB ports. Also, using the search function for

Knoppix not found

...you would have found a lot of information about the issue, like:

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....t=17386 >

Posted by xopher_mc on Mar. 29 2007,19:16

Hi, I had the knoppix not found trouble but have managed to find a work round. Linux recognises my usb drive as purely /dev/sda.

To fix this inside linux open a terminal window go to the directory where DSL is.

Then type the following:

gunzip minirt24.gz

Then make a directory to mount it too.

mkdir /mnt/dsl

then you need to mount the file.

mount -o loop minirt24 /mnt/dsl

Now you need open the linuxrc file to edit it. I used gedit

gedit /mnt/dsl/linuxrc

find the line that says

test -n "$FOUND_SCSI" -a -z "$NOSCSI" && DEVICES="$DEVICES /dev/sd?[1-9] /dev/sd?[1-9]

change it to

test -n "$FOUND_SCSI" -a -z "$NOSCSI" && DEVICES="$DEVICES /dev/sd? /dev/sd?[1-9] /dev/sd?[1-9]

save the file

now you need to unmount the file,

umount ./minirt24 /mnt/dsl

now you need to zip it

gzip minirt24

Hey Presto, it works!

ps-is there any chance that a change like this could be added to the distro so people don't do it themselves?

Posted by squidx on Mar. 30 2007,15:47

I found the same problem was resolved in a much easier way:

Rename the KNOPPIX folder to knoppix from within Windows.

It worked for me, but YMMV. Couldn't hurt to try!

Let us know if it worked.

Alex