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[Peter Van Epp <>]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 02:30:17PM -0500, Richard Carlson wrote:
> Hi Peter;
> 
> Thanks for the feedback.  I've been looking at this for most of the  
> day and other than the amd64-apg module being missing I think  
> everything else is on the disk.  Would you, or William please do the  
> following.
> 
> Insert the NDT disk into the tray and power on
> At the splash screen boot prompt type the word "expert" and press  
> "enter"
> 
> This will cause the boot process to stop at various points to prompt  
> you for a response.  I'm interested in knowing what the last message  
> is on the screen.  Is it really stopping when it tries to switch in  
> the frame buffer?  or is t stopping some place else?
> 
> Also, have you tried the V1.10 version now on the web site?  I think I  
> corrected a bug in the kernel processing of frame buffers (but I can't  
> say for sure).  In any case, let me know the results and I'll work on  
> a fix next week.
> 
> Thanks;
> Rich
>

        Just to be different mine still fails (although I'm still on the older
CD which may be why). Interestingly it no longer complains about CPU 
nicrocode,
it gets through probe and then says 

"Can't find Knoppix filesystem, sorry."

and drops me in to the shell. This sounds like the file system bug you fixed
maybe. An lsmod at the prompt (I can't even find a mount point for my memory
stick to copy this :-) no ls and /mnt doesn't seem to work perhaps because of
no /) so this is manual:

video1394
usb_storage
tmscsim
sym53c8xx
stex
qla2xxx
qla1280
ohci1394
ohci_hcd
nsp32
mpctl
megaraidid
initio
eth1394
dmx3191d
dc395x
ata_generic
aic94xx
ahci
a100u2w
BusLogic

By booting the 5.1 disk the same way, it looks like the difficulty is likely
with the CD as in 5.1 it says
Accessing Knoppix CD at /dev/scd0 in the place where the NDT CD said:

"Can't find Knoppix filesystem, sorry."

The CD is sata so I think its probably using usbstorage.

Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support 
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada