I'm having some problems installing Knoppmyth to my Computer. I'm starting with a freshly formated drive. and when I do a auto install I get this message after I go through the configuration pages, and it asks "Do you want to proceed with these Parameters?" I get this:

/usr/local/bin/KnoppMyth-auto: line 608L . 1000000: syntax error: operand expected (error token is "/1000000")

And then I just get a prompt (root@tty1{/}#)

When I do a Manual install I get:

Towards the end of the copying files, white on black text starts appearing randomly on top of the blue background. In my estimation I think it's the script that's running the in the background. and then it all disappears and a dialog box appears that says KNoppmyth was successfully installed. so I take out the CD Reboot and then I get an error saying that it can't load the Operating system.

Amy Ideas, I'm so lost


Abit VL6 Motherboard
512 MB of RAM
60GB IBM IDE Drive
80GB IDE Drive
Dual 1GHZ PIII processors

Can you set up the drives so that you're installing to the primary master device? (Either by jumpering or correcting the IDE cabling) This symptom usually indicates that your drive isn't being seen as /dev/hda (PATA primary master). It's common with SATA drives, add in IDE controllers, drives on the secondary IDE channel, ...

To my suprise you were right, my HD was attached to a PCI card, so I swaped it out. It did not allow me to install Knoppmyth successfully. It did however fix the problem I was having with the Auto install, but now both the Auto and Manual have the same problem as the manual had before. Any suggustions?

Wow, talk about timing... See the "WillNotBootAfterInstall" page I just added to the wiki: http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=WillNotBootAfterInstall

Some of the suggestions are rather vague, but most of them have already been covered either on the wiki or in the forums.

thanks for the website, I ran cfdisk and the boot partition was not flagged. so I flagged it, but this requires me to reintstall lilo. My question is how? I found a liloconfig in /usr/sbin but when I ran it I got an error saying that my fstab configurations file is missing. Any ideas?

I'm also not sure this is the only problem I'm still getting the weird texted during the end of the install

I also tried installing Fedora 4 and had the same missing OS error, however when I install Mandrake 10 it work fine. Just thought that might be some needed info

I forgot to mention, I looked in my BIOS for anything that was mentioned on your website, but everything looked inline to me, but I think I'm missing something

Directions for this can be found on the wiki, and in the usual run of coincidence around here someone else just posted how they did this... Hang on while I hunt for the topic... Aha! http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6623 oh and if vi is too scary I believe nano works from the CD too. Actually you may not even need to edit the file...

sorry to bump an old thread, but i have mine on the primary master and am having the same issue, please help.

during the knoppix startup thing it says the hdd is hde... how do i make it hda? i am a total linux noob, this is my first ever linux install or use, please be gentle.

Funny, maybe it's just lack of sleep, but all I can think of is how cats never seem to appreciate how gentle your trying to be when you give 'em a flea bath... OK, all but the one I rescued from the neighbors basement where it had gotten trapped under a rock for nearly a week. After that, I could hold that cat with one hand while the vet gave it stitches and shots.

Sounds like your drives are attached to an add in controller card or something like that... Could you provide more hardware details? What does your BIOS say about them? Get a piece of paper and write down the exact text, even minor details are important with stuff like this.

Also try grepping the logs (don't worry I'll explain in a mnute) for all the HD controller info. here is the command to use:

See the LinuxTips page on the wiki for more details. - http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=LinuxTips

thanks the tips, i'll post more when i get home, but i have booted knoppix live from a different CD and it boots fine recognising the drive as hda, also the bios detects it as primary master...

do i need to fdisk the drive or leave it unpartitioned? currently it has no partitions on it. when i went to the manual instal it allowed me to partition it, but again it only allowed me to partition ti as HDE

i do have the ide plugged into the primary as master and the only other drive i have is the cd drive on the secondary cable as master Which the bios detects nicely.

thnks for the help, i got er gifured, my MOBO has raid support and the raid would boot before the HDD's so i had to disable the raid funstion on the bios, thanks/.