Hi Robert,
1. Try a different flash device (see below); or
2. in the meantime, try burning one of the bootonly iso images to CD.
Once Knoppix boots, it scans all partitions for the KNOPPIX image and uses
the partition of the *first one found.* It then looks for/prompts for
creating knoppix-data in that partition. Your current method fails
because the search finds the CD's KNOPPIX image first, so knoppix seizes
that partition.
The problem may lie in the BIOS, or rather in the combination of BIOS and
USB firmware. I've come across USB flash devices which boot smoothly on
every other machine I've tried, but are ignored by every Dell I've tried,
even though those Dell machines boot other USB flash devices just fine. I
wish Dell would release a BIOS update to fix this. Until that happens,
I'm not buying any more Dells.
Unfortunately, incompatible USB devices don't identify themselves as such
on the packaging. I did notice, however, that I've only seen this problem
with devices that actually look cool and/or are small enough to fit
comfortably in my pocket on my key ring.
Regards,
Andrew
On Thu, June 12, 2014 03:12, Robert wrote:
Hi Andrew
Ah ... so it's back to manually specifying the path while using the CD!
BTW Persistent home is working in the USB install - it just wouldn't
boot the BIOS on that particular computer.
As there is no emergency ... just a friend who is curious about trying a
live OS ... I'll lend him my Netbook to use with a Knoppix USB stick.
Thank you for your help :-).
Robert
On 12/06/2014 16:29, Andrew Poulain wrote:
Robert,
You have to specify the home path by mount point. For example:
Home=/dev/sda1/
This is true for the live cd. I can't quite say what the steps are
needed for a USB install.
Hope this helped,
Andrew Joseph Poulain
On Jun 12, 2014, at 1:05, Robert <email@samsarin.org> wrote:
Hello
I've used Knoppix 7.2 running from a USB stick (& SD Card) since it was
released.
Yesterday I tried to boot the Knoppix stick from a friends computer
(BIOS: USB-HDD, USB-ZIP etc) unsuccessfully.
While the computer was able to boot from the Live CD ... there was no
prompt for persistent home even though there was an empty 16G USB stick
connected, and I was subsequently able to copy files as well as create
directories on it.
Next step was to use the "install Knoppix to flash" to this new USB
stick - which apparently worked although the end result was still not
bootable on the computer, as mentioned above. Nor was the flash
install's knoppix-data.img used or recognised as a persistent home with
the Live CD afterwards.
I've been using Knoppix in some capacity for about 14 years but have
apparently missed some change or forgotten how to use Persistent Home
since 7.2 :-/
Any ideas, tips?
Thank you,
Robert
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