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Knoppix Booting
Name: Corey Date: August 13, 2003 at 11:26:15 Pacific OS: Knoppix CPU/Ram: 1.8G/512M
Comment:
I boot up knoppix and then the little logo comes up and it doe a bunch of processing and then at the very end it just says.
"NO init found, try passing init- option to kernel"
And freezes up.
Anyone knwo how to stop this?
I burned it with MagicISO and I burned it TWICE, and bothcopies do the SAME thing.
Name: 0scar Date: August 13, 2003 at 12:04:04 Pacific
Reply:
have you checked your ISO image?
md5sum.exe knoppixxxx.iso
then compare the obtained key with that in knoppixxxxx.iso.md5 file
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Response Number 2
Name: ectoplasme Date: August 13, 2003 at 13:33:40 Pacific
Reply:
You could also try this : at the boot prompt, where it asks you to hit any key to initiate boot sequence you can hit F2 then you'll have a bunch of options, you could simply type: failsafe then ENTER and see what happens, it might work.
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