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Posted: April 24 2005,12:56 QUOTE

I am using a Compaq EVO with 1g of ram, my stick is a Lexar 1g. I have been unable to get this to setup to boot. I have read other post in these forums and tried some of the suggestions I have found. At first I had a message to the effect the operating sytem could not be found. I tried the mkdos -I suggestion and then the message changed to something like error reading the operating system. I don't have access to the evo on the weekend so these are not word for word, but close. I have been able to boot with other devices, usb hard drive and floppy drive. Can someone give me a direction? :p

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Posted: April 30 2005,13:49 QUOTE

204 reads and not one response. I guess this must be a unique problem.

Well I have some further input that may help others. I read these forums for a week with not luck. I did read one concerning changing /knoppix/knoppix from upper case to lower case.I did a new install following doom4 instructions found here in these forums. I changed /KNOPPIX?KNOPPIX to /knoppix/knoppix, I shut down the computer and restarted it. VIOLA! the stick booted. I thought it was great, I had done it.

Well I shut down the computer and started again, wanting to see my sucess. Guess what. Everything started as it should. I hit return at the boot prompt. Then things stalled at the /dev/sda1 prompt. After about three or so minutes it dropped to the next line and reported that it could not find the KNOPPIX file system. (Note the caps) It then reported that it was going to open a very limited shell and I had a command line with the #. that was it. I could not do a single thing but look at it, dir(not found) ls -s (not found) etc. There really was no file system.

Can anyone help me? :)

A little more input, I tried booting with a diskette, works fine. I can use the qemu embedded version and all works fine.

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Posted: April 30 2005,17:24 QUOTE

Try booting with the

dsl toram

boot command.
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Posted: April 30 2005,18:39 QUOTE

O.K. cbagger01 I will give that a try. I have tried that but can't remember exactly when. It was probably before I ever got things to boot at all.(I guess I've hacked at this to much)  I received feed back something to the effect that there was not enough ram. This was with 1g.  This is my computer at school, so I won't be able to try until Monday.

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