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Post by joncrndl on Mar 21, 2011 0:45:49 GMT -5
I hope to get another opportunity to try the KNOS64 on a stick on a friend's Vostro. It seems to be a little squirrelly. It currently is running XP Home edition. It booted Knoppix from a stick, but I did not get the last message on the screen, before it hit the wall. FYI - it did not look good for Ubuntu 10.10 64 on a stick either. I thought that maybe my sticks had be corrupted. The same KNOS64 stick is what booted my Thinkpad T61 just now with no problem.
later....
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Post by joncrndl on Mar 21, 2011 0:47:53 GMT -5
FYI - 1GB memory with and 80GB disk.
It shows the dual core AMD64 in Knoppix at about 1.9Ghz.
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Post by Kevin McAleavey on Mar 21, 2011 2:16:34 GMT -5
FYI - 1GB memory with and 80GB disk. It shows the dual core AMD64 in Knoppix at about 1.9Ghz. Oh dear ... and one of the early ones too. Yeah, did a fast check with BSD about those and there's gaggles of fun reported. The problem with those revolves around good old "ACPI" in their BIOS and it defaults to an odd mode where the USB stack takes a VERY long time to wake up because it's looking for a floppy drive that isn't there, even if you plug one in. If the SATA ports in those are set into AHCI/RAID mode instead of IDE mode, strange things happen. You might want to check that setting in BIOS, and if it works then you'll find Linux will work properly too and XP might even boot up a bit faster as well. If that isn't it though, not much we can do aside from booting from a puck ... (note to viewers, I've known Jon for a long time and just cutting to "geek mode" tells him what he wants to know fast, heh) |
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