I'm trying to install mythtv with knoppmythrsa16.iso. It starts to boot from the CD then stops with the message "knoppix mythtv cannot find knoppix filesystem" and gives me a "limited shell".

I have burned a new CD and get the same results. I am able to boot with other CD's.

This is a new stand alone box. No Windoze involved. I am able to load other Linux distributions.

Either a bad burn or a faulty ISO. Did you verify the md5sum?

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

I used K3d to create the CD and it verified the md5sum.

The the md5sum it shows match the md5sum I release? If so, burn at a lower speed, try different media or a different drive.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Thanks, I will give it another try.

The md5sum is the same as the posted one. It matches the written one. I used a different burner at a lower speed.

I reformated the disk before I tried MythKnoppix. It was originally ReiserFS, I made it ext2.

Same result.

First of all the image should be called KnoppMythR5A16.iso accept no substitutes! Second of all these are very definitely signs of a problem reading the CD, your HD has nothing to do with it this early in the process. The first thing that happens after the boot is that it tries to create a ramdisk with the Linux disk image in it to work from by unpacking the compressed version on the CD.

Are you low on memory? You need to provide more hardware details...

I have been out of town, so now I am finally replying. The proper file name is indeed: KnoppMythR5A16.iso . Sorry I was not correct in my naming. I tried again. I created the CD on the same drive that I am using to read it. The md5sum matches everywhere. I got exactly the same result.

The machine is a new box, built for this reason. It has 512 meg of memory, a 400 gig Seagate hard drive, a Plextor SATA 712SA/SW dvd rw, a Hauppauge PVR 150, a US Robotics wireless card, not working yet, a US Rootics PCI NIC, and an nvidia graphics card.

The machine works fine under Mandrake 10.1.

Thanks for your help.

Dale

SATA and knoppmyth are not best friends

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R5F1 - Dell P4 2.4Ghz 500MB - PVR250 x 2 - GeForce FX 5200 - Onboard sound/NIC 80GB ATA/250GB ATA/400GB SATA

The dvd is SATA, but the hard drive is not.

It was able to boot from the dvd.

Dale

A SATA DVD drive explains a lot.

The initial boot is handled by the BIOS which knows about SATA devices, however once that gets the bootloader and even the OS running that may not know how to deal with it by default. Try booting in expert mode, and see if it will let you choose a workable driver for the DVD. If not you may need to boot in expert mode again and provide a floppy with an appropriate driver module...

I'm having the same problem. This system will not boot up and gives the same error. I can boot other machines off the disc but not my pvr box.

The motherboard has SATA channels on it but they aren't being used and I've tried using the disc in both my TDK 4x DVDRW and a Sony DVD drive.

I figured this might help:

P4 2.4Ghz
Asus P4P800-VM/S
2GB Ram
Dual Seagate ST3300831A 300GB Hard drives (Striped) (PATA)
Adaptec ATA-1200A
Sony DVD DDU1613 (PATA)
TDK 4x DVD+-RW (PATA)
Radeon 9600SE 128
Hauppauge PVR-250
Hercules Game Theater XP

If you're not using them, they're almost certainly not the problem.

BTW - Thats relatively exotic hardware, what are the drive assignments according to the BIOS?

The Bios sees the two cdrom devices as being the 3rd and 4th channels and is told to boot off of one of the DVD's first and then the array controller second. -- It doesn't actually care about drive letters (or mention them).