[Quantian-general] Quantian on HP Notebook

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 27 June 2006 at 18:24, Thomas Harte wrote:
| 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.

Different kernels, though, between Quantian 0.7.9.2 and Knoppix 5.0.2.
Possibly similar configurations, though. 

| 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: 

Hyperthreading also shows two, I believe. Dual-cpu machines are not problem;
I do not suspect any issues with dual-core either.

| 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.
| 
| 
| ############################################################
|  anybody have a clue as to the problem?

I'd look at the cheatcodes documentation. Otherwise, try to get as much
information about the particular hardware on the laptop, ie which chipsets
are used etc, and google away ...

Lastly, do not underestimate the chance that it is _merely_ a media problem.
Some cd/dvd readers and some cd/dvds just do not get along.  A _great_ way to
set this would be to boot your desktop off the Quantian dvd, launch the
terminalserver and try to boot the laptop over the network using PXE (you may
need to tell the laptop to try netboot before trying hd or dvd based
methods).  If it boots you know the kernel is fine.

Hope this helps, Dirk

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