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

[jack byers]

| 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.


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,
 thanks for quick response
 also fails on linux24 same way

 the downloaded .iso  did pass md5 test

 qemu is available on fc5, but i know virtually zip how to use it
it did start but eventually failed

the qemu window had several pages of response,
     able to page back thru it  w shift-pageup
couldnt seem to copy from that window, see below for selected outputlines

[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  migrt24.gz  miniroots.tar.gz  minirt26
linux26  migshm24    minirt24.gz        quantliloerr
[root at bootp boot]# qemu -kernel linux24  -initrd minirt24.gz../Quantian_0.7.9.2
.iso
Could not open '/dev/kqemu' - QEMU acceleration layer not activated


in the qemu window several pages of response
so it at least starts  but finally fails

booting from hard disk..
uncompresing linux ... ok, booting the kernel
Linux version 2.4.27........#1 SMP ...Tug 26 .....2004
    <<< is that SMP a problem ??????????????????????????????????


Initializing CPU..

Enabling fast FPU.... done

CPU0: intel pentium II..

Linux net4.0 for linux 2.4

Ramdisk driver initialilzed.....

hda: qemu harddisk, ata disk drive
hdc: qemu cd-rom,....

partition check:
 hda:
ide: late regis.....
SCSI subsys....
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadaptor,  errno = 2


Net4: unix domain sokets...
ramdisk: compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 1518k freed

VFS: mounted root (ext2...).
attempt to access beyond end of device
                 <<<<<<<<<< ??? means not enough room on     my partition?
it is almost 8gb
01:00: rw=0, want=4193, limit=4096
  last lines rpt several times
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadaptor,  errno = 2
VFS: cannot open root device "" or 08:01
please append a correct "root=" boot option  <<<<<<<<< means what?
<<<< is this last a  qemu required part of the execute line?
<<<<  is it referring to the qemu virtual disk location of the rootfs or
what?

Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 08:01


does this tell you anything re the the quantian.iso  being corrupt or not?


I dont have a  live cd in my possession right now
ordered/will receive the quantian0.7  dvd and knoppixlive cd soon

but would really like to see if this downloaded iso can be made to work
as per the lilogrub howto, it just seems so neat  and clean  if it works.

Jack
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