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Could not completely boot Knoppix 6.2 from ISO on ext3

Hi,

Because my DVD drive has problems with read-eyes, I want to boot Knoppix from ISO file on HDD. Below are the steps I did:

put ISO on / of ext3 partition which I am running Gentoo
create Knoppix folder including the: linux, minitrd.gz - extract from ISO file
add new entry to menu.lst:

Code:

title Knoppix 6.2.1

root (hd0,4)

kernel (hd0,4)/Knoppix/linux ramdisk_size=100000 fromhd=/dev/sda5 bootfrom=/dev/sda5/ADRIANE-KNOPPIX_V6.2.1CD-2010-01-31-EN.iso 

initrd (hd0,4)/Knoppix/minirt.gz

Reboot and I get the following error:

Quote:

Knoppix 6.2 (based on MicroKnoppix) # or somthing like that
waiting usb....
could not mount disk to /mnt-system
starting debugging shell..
sh: can't access tty, job control turned off
sh: /

At the debugging shell, I still can do some things like: create folder, mount ext3 partition, edit text file with nano, ... but how to get rid of this error and completely boot to GUI?

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

i have the same problem. have you managed to find solution in meantime?

Quote:

Originally Posted by qrange (Post 4294799)

i have the same problem. have you managed to find solution in meantime?

No, I haven't. But I try to boot with some other LiveCDs and Parted Magic works fine:

Code:

title Parted Magic 5.10

root (hd0,4)

kernel (hd0,4)/pmagic/bzImage ramdisk_size=100000 fromhd=/dev/sda5 bootfrom=/dev/sda5/pmagic-5.10.iso 

initrd (hd0,4)/pmagic/initramfs