On Saturday 07 April 2007 18:01, you wrote:
> Once Knoppix is running open a terminal and just type "mount." You should
> see no reference to /dev/hda at all. If you do then it did get mounted
> somehow. You can unmount it from the same terminal with "umount."
Jon,
I did that, and it does not mention /dev/hda. However, I still get the
different values for md5sum /dev/hda.
Right now, I am trying "knoppix nofstab nodma 3". I noticed that at boot up
with the knoppix cd, there was a message about enabling dma for /dev/hda (or
hd1 & hda2 - not sure). Anyway, that may have been a problem.
I think Knoppix mounts local drives read only, but they do not show up using
mount. I thought nofstab would prevent that, but obviously it did not. From
http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Cheat_Codes#Tips.26Tricks:
nofstab
By default Knoppix will look/scan the HDs to see if it contains
partitions. If the HDs do have partitions, Knoppix will automatically build
a '/etc/fstab' file and fill-in the appropriate partition entries and will
also create the '/mnt/hdxx' mount points. The 'nofstab' cheat code prevents
this look/scan and prevents the generation of the /etc/fstab and its mount
points.
Anyway, without dma it takes a loooooooooooooong time to calculate a md5sum
for a 30 GB disk!
I don't think there is anything wrong with my drive or RAM. It has been
reliable and I have not had any problems. I leave the machine on for days,
and it still keeps on going. The a/c in my office has not kicked in yet, so
it has been toasty (above 80), and the machine has never hiccupted. It dual
boots Windows/Linux, and even the Windows partition works reliably! ;-)
Thanks!
Mark
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