knoppix

[Rusty Ramser]

Hi, Mark.

I've had this happen before and it's usually that X has blown up and not
started correctly.  Have you tried just switching to a text terminal to see
if the system has actually started except for X?  If you can log into a text
terminal, you have a chance of troubleshooting/fixing.

If your systems all get DHCP leases from your router, you can also take a
look at the active leases and see if the Knoppix system actually appears to
be booted far enough along to be on the network.  Pings to validate it's
alive and then potentially ssh for login/troubleshooting might work if none
of the displays locally are working.

Cheers.


-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org
[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Mark Jarvis
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2014 22:55
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: knoppix


The venerable CD of my old favorite, knoppix, having died, I downloaded the
64 bit DVD ISO (I have a 64 bit system) & burned it to a DVD. I booted from
the DVD and at the boot prompt typed the knoppx64 option. It started off
just fine, then went to a totally blank screen. The last couple of lines
before it went blank went by too fast to really notice. 
The md5sum of the downloaded ISO matches.

Does anyone have an idea of what the problem is, and more importantly, what
to do about it?

Many thanks for any help!



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