[Quantian-general] Quantian on HP Notebook

[Thomas Harte]

hi,

i created a dvd iso image of quantian from which i can boot my desktop pc successfully. 

however, my notebook is not being as cooperative (hp dv8230us, intel centrino duo t2300 ... this, i think, may be relevant). i *can* successfully boot iso images of ubuntu 6.06 and gentoo 2006.0 from dvd on the notebook. i can similarly boot gparted (for what it's worth). i *cannot* boot quantian or knoppix 5.0.1; the latter is not surprising given that quantian is based on knoppix.

a first curiosity in the notebook boot sequence for quantian is the appearance of two penguins ... for the duo processors, i presume? here is the complete boot dump:
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Welcome to the KNOPPIX live Linux-on-CD&DVD ! (NTFS support 20050924)

Scanning for USB/Firewire devices... Done.
 Accessing KNOPPIX CD&DVD at /dev/hda...
 Found primary KNOPPIX compressed image at /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX.
 Found additional KNOPPIX compressed image at /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX2.
Total memory found: 1553296 kB
Creating /ramdisk (dynamic size=1220660k) on shared memory...Done.
Creating unionfs and symlinks on ramdisk...
>> Read-only CD&DVD system successfully merged with read-write /ramdisk.
Done.
Starting init process.
INIT: version 2.78-knoppix booting
select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out
Running Linux Kernel 2.6.12.
 Processor 0 is        Genuine Intel(R) CPU    T2300    @ 1.66GHz 1662MHz, 2048 KB Cache
 Processor 1 is        Genuine Intel(R) CPU    T2300    @ 1.66GHz 1662MHz, 2048 KB Cache
ACPI Bios found, activating modules: ac battery button container fan processor thermal video
INIT: Switching to runlevel: 0
INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
Sent all processes the TERM signal...............................................
Sent all processes the KILL signal...............................................
Syncing/Unmoutning filesystems: /UNIONFS /ramdisk /KNOPPIX2.
Turning off swap.
Unmounting remaining file systems.
/dev/root unmounted

KNOPPIX halted.
Please remove CD, close cdrom drive and hit return.


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 anybody have a clue as to the problem?

cheers,

thomas.
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