Re: [SLUG] Knoppix kernel panic?

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Mon Aug 23 2004 - 01:30:21 EDT


On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Bob Stia wrote:

> Decided I wanted a copy of Knoppix to do "things" if I needed to.
>
> Download was huge for my 56k modem so I went on line and ordered a CD.
> Arrived yesterday from Europe someplace. Estonia??

Very far northeastern Europe, almost Russia. :-)

> Anyway, when I put it in the drive and boot from it, I get a kernel
> panic !!!! How can that be ??

Some driver the kernel attempts to load doesn't like your hardware. If
you can find out what the kernel prints just before the crash, you can
disable that driver (maybe) with a cernel command line option.

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