My computer has an Intel processor, a 930GB SATA hard disk, Windows Vista, and an Intel ICH8R SATA RAID controller.

KNOPPIX, distros based on KNOPPIX, and Puppy Linux won't work on my PC when I boot them off LiveCDs.

With KNOPPIX and KNOPPIX based distros, it states -

'Cannot find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry. Dropping you to a (very limited) shell.'

And with Puppy Linux -

'Searching for Puppy files on computer hard disks. Cannot find file pup_400.sfs.
Dropping to limited shell.' (or something along those lines.)

I think these problems might be related to the RAID controller. Can someone please help me?



Zeeky

Knoppix wouldn't boot on my new computer. I think it has Intel ICH9, but it also has a sata cd drive. Entering at the boot prompt the boot code

linux all-generic-ide irqpoll

got it to boot. I don't know if your hardware is similar enough for that to work for you. Otherwise you could try some other boot codes (nodma seems to often be suggested) http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Cheat_Codes

Thanks Honeysuckle, I'll try your advice.



Zeeky

Thanks for the advice, Honeysuckle, but it didn't seem to work. It found the KNOPPIX filesystem on the CD, but then it came up with a long string of errors which seemed to be something about my card not supporting something. I didn't have time to read the errors properly, because the screen kept on flashing on and off. I had to boot back into Vista after that. Some of the errors mentioned bytes being lost on the CD! I think the CD's been wrecked, too. Anyway, thanks for the advice!



EDIT: The CD hasn't been wrecked, luckily!

Did you burn your cd at slow speed? If you did it at a higher speed, it might have errors.

Perhaps it is some graphics-card/monitor related problem? Maybe try VGA=normal? Otherwise you could google for people with your card having similar problems? Hopefully somebody else may have some better suggestions