I have recently acquired a Knoppix CD. Neither of my two computers will boot from a CD so I made a boot floppy from the knoppix image provided.
Booting from machine 1, a dual CPU with 512MB ram and all SCSI devices produces the message 'Can't find KNOPPIX file system, sorry' and I find I'm dumped into a *very* restrictive shell which, although it includes 'insmod', doesn't include 'ls' which is not very helpful. Insmoding the correct SCSI module gets me precisely nowhere and 'lsmod' produces nothing.
Trying the 'expert' boot gives me a list of SCSI modules and having selected the appropriate module I get the same result.
Booting from machine 2 with 128MB ram and also all SCSI gets me into the full Knoppix system without any problems.
Although both machines use the same SCSI module, ncr53c8xx, one of the differences is that Machine 1 has a dual channel SCSI adapter which is fairly modern and Machine 2 has a single channel adapter which is some years old.
Anyone have any experience of this?
Regards
Barry Samuels
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Barry Samuels wrote:
Although both machines use the same SCSI module, ncr53c8xx, one of the differences is that Machine 1 has a dual channel SCSI adapter which is fairly modern and Machine 2 has a single channel adapter which is some years old.
Hi Barry,
try the sym53c8xx driver instead. If you have a Tekram DC390U or similar (based on the Symbios 53C1010 chip) you'll need the newer driver.
I had the same problem when I first got my SCSI card.
HTH
Chris
Barry Samuels bsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk wrote:
find I'm dumped into a *very* restrictive shell which, although it includes 'insmod', doesn't include 'ls' which is not very helpful.
Quick semi-related tip: "echo *" (which is builtin to most shells) might give you a directory listing when ls doesn't work...
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