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Knoppix on 5670

post #1 of 3
9/19/03 at 2:20pm
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I downloaded Knoppix Ver 3.2 2003-09-05-EN and burned it to a cd. I don't plan on installing Liux on my Sager yet (that's what my desktop is for), but I want to be able to show people Linux on my Sager.

The CD works great on my desktop. But on my Sager 5670 it stalls a few seconds after I enter the knoppix command. I tried several commands including all of the nousb nofirewire type things I could find. Even failsafe wouldn't work. I read through the forums here to see what other people have tried but nothing seemed to work. Maybe it is because I have a newer version of Knoppix than others were trying.

5670 3.06GHz, 1GB RAM, 40GB hard drive, CD-RW/DVD, second battery, HT-disabled

If anyone else has run Knoppix successfully on a 5670 could you tell me which version of Knoppix and what command you used to run it.

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post #2 of 3
9/20/03 at 2:00pm
I had the same problem with both Knoppix and Mandrake 9.1. The problem seems to have something to do with kernel version 2.4.21. I could never get it working with that kernel, and initially downgraded to 2.4.20 (but still with Mandrake 9.1).

Now that 2.4.22 is out, the problem seems to have gone away. I tried everything, but no matter what I did, if kernel 2.4.21 was involved, the machine simply would not boot.

Until Knoppix moves to the new kernel, I'm not sure what you can do. If you're installing another distro, though, make sure it doesn't try to boot 2.4.21.

For more info, see my "Install locks on Mandrake 9.1" thread on this site (I think it's on the second page now). You'll see all the pain I went through, but the people on this site were very helpful.
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post #3 of 3
10/6/03 at 6:24pm
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I can get Knoppix to boot now, but...

First, I downloaded the V3.3-2003-9-22 version of knoppix which has the 2.4.22 kernel. But it still didn't work.

Today I started reading some of the forum posts at knoppix.net and found some similar problems.

I have HyperThreading disabled on my 5670 because it seemed to fix crashing in certain games. In one post they say that Knoppix compiles the kernel with SMP enabled so I decided to try to enable HyperThreading in my BIOS and try Knoppix again.

With HT enabled Knoppix now works.

So now I have to decide if it is worth trying to reinstall Windows XP with HT enabled (and hope that the game crashing issues have been resolved) just so I can easily run Knoppix off the CD without futzing with the BIOS every time.

At any rate, I am much happier now that I got it working.
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