[Quantian-general] Quantian0.7.9.2.iso, lilogrub HOWTO Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 29 September 2006 at 17:35, jack byers wrote:
| trying to use Quantian0.7.9.2.iso   and the lilogrub HOWTO
| iso not burned to dvd, not booting from any cdrom
| 
| system comes up with Welcome to KNOPPIX live cd
| 
| but then, in red :
| 
| Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry
| Dropping you to a (very limited)  shell
| press reset to quit
| knoppix:

That's odd. It starts the boot process, but then can't proceed. I can think
of two things:

-- your grub or lilo setup isn't quite right
-- your iso may be busted

You could exclude the 2nd case by trying qemu (maybe in FC) or VMWare Player
(free as in beer, not open source -- very useful though) and boot the iso
from a live system to check. See the pertinent HOWTO on my site.
 
| I am total newbie with debian, knoppix, quantian.
| used rh8  for many years;
| now my main os is fc5 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5
| 
| couldnt quite believe that it would be as easy as that howto claimed
| I am probably missing some obvious additional required steps
| 
| what i did:  downloaded Quantian_0.7.9.2.iso
| put it in an existing  ext3 partition (prev used for rh8)
|  mounted on /rh8   when up in fc5
| 
| from fc5
| root at bootp ~]# mount /dev/sdb5 /rh8
| [root at bootp ~]# cd /rh8
| [root at bootp rh8]# ls
| boot  bootrh8  Quantian_0.7.9.2.iso
| [root at bootp rh8]# cd boot
| [root at bootp boot]# ls
| linux24  linux26  migrt24.gz  migshm24  miniroots.tar.gz  minirt24.gz
| minirt26.gz
| [root at bootp boot]#
| 
| I thot that is all that was required, according to that howto
| along with modifying the grub.conf on my fc5 systtem
| 
| in fc5 /boot/grub/grub.conf
| 
| default=0
| timeout=5
| splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
| hiddenmenu
| title Fedora Core (2.6.17-1.2174_FC5) sda1
|         root (hd0,0)
|         kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
|         initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.img
| 
| 
| title Quantian0.7.9.2 kernel 2.6 sdb5
|         root (hd1,4)

I guess hd1,4 corresponds to sdb5 so he finds it for initial loading

|    kernel /boot/linux26 ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us
| apm=power-off vga=791
|  nomce quiet fromhd=/dev/null bootfrom=/dev/sdb5/*.iso config=scan home=scan
| noprompt
|    initrd /boot/minirt26.gz

Did you try, just for a variation, the linux24 and minirt24 variants?
 
| any advice?
| missing something obvious?

You could the try the more verbose debugging options.

Dirk

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