Hi,

I have problems to install latest KnoppMyth version R5D1 on my newly bought HTPC. I get the following message:

"Cant find Knoppix filesystem, Sorry..."
"Dropping you to a (very limited) shell"

What to do? I have tried various knoppix installation options, such as "knoppmyth nodma" without success.

Please help me further...
Thanks.

Regards,
Martin

Hardware info please.

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Sounds like a bad burn. Try booting with "tv testcd" and see what happens.

Hi!

My HW is:

Silverstone LC17S HTPC case, WinTV PVR-150, Gigabyte GA-965P-DS4 motherboard, CPU Intel Core2Duo E6300 1.83GHz, 250GB Samsung SP2504C SATAII, NEC ND-5170 18x IDE, LeadTek GeForce 7600GS 256MB PCI-Express, 512MB x 2 PC5300 DDR2 (DDR667), Bzerk 500W PSU, Zalman 7700 CU CPU-cooler.

When I ran:

>knoppix testcd

I get:

"Could not find kernel image: knoppix"

Is this a proof of a faulty CD image?

Is there any problems to use CDRW or DVDRW discs?

Thanks in advance...

Regards,
Martin

first confirm the MD5 of the iso. then reburn using a lower (or lowest) speed.

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MD5SUM:

F:\>md5sum KnoppMythR5D1.iso
cef6f635e686a477b47188f6ca5768d0 *KnoppMythR5D1.iso

As far as I can see, the ISO has the correct MD5SUM.

I:\KNOPPIX>f:\md5sum.exe KNOPPIX
361fb505f275244ef6a5763e7de17fc4 *KNOPPIX

...and the same for the CDROM:\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX file as seen above.

Regards
Martin

I have now written a new KNOPPMYTH CD at lowest speed (4X). Same result.

>Knoppmyth testcd

...gives the same result as a normal boot. I don't know if the CD has been tested since it doesn't give any printouts concerning CD test.

However, I get an error in the beginning of the installation:

PCI: BIOS bug: MCFG area is not E820-reserved
PCI: Not using MMCONFIG

The installation then continues:

"Welcome to the KNOPPIX live Linux-On-CD!"
....

Could this cause my problem?

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Martin

I just encountered this myself, and it's happening on two different known-good burns of KnoppMyth and on Overclockix, a KNOPPIX-based live CD. The "nodma" boot option doesn't help. The IDE optical drive involved was used in another motherboard as recently as today, and I was able to install from it.

My motherboard is also a Core 2 Duo, with G965 / ICH8 chipsets (yours is P965 / ICH8R). I wonder if this has anything to do with it. I've seen reports of this particular KNOPPIX error on older hardware, so it's hard to tell at this point if it's the same problem or a new one that gives the same error message.

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I just found this - looks like it's a question of the motherboard chipsets being sufficiently new that they aren't yet fully supported: http://www.blindedbytech.com/2006/11/10 ... therboard/

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The workaround (setting the SATA drive to act as AHCI, booting the install CD with "knoppmyth all-generic-ide pci=nommconf") got me to the installer. We'll see what happens after I boot for the first time, though.

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The workaround only seems to be half the solution. Once I installed, I couldn't boot to the drive to which I installed.

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I would assume that the extra options need to be added to the append line in the lilo.conf.

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You beat me to it - I was just about to post my success

Boot with the aforementioned parameters, then do a Manual Install. When the Manual Install is done, you're dropped into a shell.

1) vi /mnt/hdinstall/etc/lilo.conf
1a) add "all-generic-ide pci=nommconf" to the other kernel parameters in the append list, save your changes, and exit vi.
1b) (vi help): http://www.lagmonster.org/docs/vi.html

2) Run this:

You need to specify your HDD device here, which may or may not be like mine. And I know you only need to pick one of the two, but I did both to be certain it'd work. Anyway, that gets it booting!

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