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Ed Jabbour wrote: |
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> Both Desktop and laptop run gentoo. Desk will boot or mount a knoppix or |
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> other live cd. Lap, however, will do neither - mount returns "bad |
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> superblock." The lap, strangely enough, will mount and read a Scrabble disc |
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> for Windoze. Same with file -s; reads Scrabble fine, but barfs on the |
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> knoppix. Any hints or pointers on where on the lap's gentoo system to look |
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> for the difference in behaviour greatly appreciated. Thanks. |
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Are you saying that the knoppix disk won't boot? That would be strange - |
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in my experience non-booting livecds usually fixed by adding kernel |
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options (acpi or irq options usually) during the boot processes. That's |
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quite easy on the gentoo livecd for instance, not sure how to do it on |
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knoppix. |
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If you have a booting gentoo system and can't mount the knoppix disk |
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from within gentoo - if you are sure the CD isn't corrupted in it's |
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filesystem: then it probably comes down once again to kernel issues - |
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probably a lack of a certain filesystem support in |
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"Bad superblock" normally either formatting errors / corrupt disk, or |
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support for a particular file system not built into kernel etc. etc. |
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You've probably tried all these things, but they are the sort of |
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directions I'd be moving in if I were you. |
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W. |
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