Knoppix??

makuyl · 03-25-2005, 06:16 AM

Well, as I said I don't have SATA so I'm getting out of ideas here but you could try:
knoppix26 pci=biosirq acpi=off noapic pnpbios=off

Did you jumper the hd to master???

OtisLinux · 03-25-2005, 10:04 AM

what do you mean jumper the hd to master.

makuyl · 03-25-2005, 12:00 PM

There's a small plastic thingy with metal contacts called a jumper usually in the middle of the back of a hd (hmm, wasn't that fluent) with 3 possible positions: Master, slave and cable select. Try setting it to master if it's on cable select or slave. While windows happily accepts cable select, linux doesn't allways.
Just grasping at straws really but it's worth a try.

OtisLinux · 03-25-2005, 12:16 PM

oh duh i knew that. But its already on master. Sorry bout the confusion. I did this:
knoppix26 pci=biosirq acpi=off noapic pnpbios=off
but nothing was different. Sometimes when i do one of them it wont boot up, says somthing is not syncing and it just crashes.

makuyl · 03-25-2005, 12:35 PM

I'm actually not sure if you can get it to work since you probably need to load drivers in a certain order. Things like:
"Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!"
do not seem very promising.

Have you tried kanotix? Quite like knoppix but being newer than the present knoppix it also has newer drivers. http://kanotix.com

OtisLinux · 03-25-2005, 12:51 PM

i just used knoppix b/c i have heard other ppl use it. I am gettin quite tired of it though i think im going to try the kanotix.
Thanks for all your help i appreciate it

OtisLinux · 03-25-2005, 01:10 PM

Is there anything else that is like that or knoppix, kanotix is horribly slow and i have cable. Also i dont know if im downloading EN version or not.

OtisLinux · 03-27-2005, 11:48 AM

Ok i might have figured out why this is sucha pain. My motherboard has onboard raid controller. It is a
Gigabyte K7 Triton series with AGP8x/Dual channel ddr, and onboard raid