On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, savatage wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Foxworth" <rfoxwor1@tampabay.rr.com>
> To: <slug@nks.net>
> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 6:09 AM
>
> > > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Bob Stia wrote:
> > >
> > > > Anyway, when I put it in the drive and boot from it, I get a kernel
> > > > panic !!!! How can that be ??
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Any of the May 2004 versions of Knoppix 3.4 refuse to run
> > on either type of Dell Optiplex here (GX1 tower, GX 100
> > pizzabox style). It hangs up early in booting when trying to
> > initialize the CDROM device as /dev/scd0 and requires a
> > hard power reset even just to get the CD disk back out of
> > the drive..
> >
> > Knoppix 3.3 works with no problem on these machines, as do
> > others such as Adios, FreesBIE, Kanotix, STD, FIRE, Phlak,
> > SUSE live-eval 9.1
> >
> > So, is DELL considered non-standard hardware? :-)
> What is the amount of ram , the processor speed?
> The newer version of knoppix may require more resources.
I would expect it to run slowly in that case, not crash. Crashing is
extremely suboptimal.
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