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When booting DSL 3.0.1 from a CD in my rather new Dell D410 laptop, the boot process hangs after a few steps (after loading "linux24......." and "minirt.gz......."). Booting from the same CD works fine in my older Dell laptop.

I've been searching this forum and elsewhere, but I haven't been able to solve the problem. The only progress(?) I've made is when using the "failsafe" or "lowram" cheatcodes. Then the bootprocess runs further but stops with

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keventd has not started
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Unable to andle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000039
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<0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

Any solution ideas?

Found some relevant info in the laptop part of this forum and got one step further.

With "dsl acpi=off" the boot process continues. But I end up with

can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry.
Dropping you to a (very limited) shell.

Will continue searching for solutions...

Try forcing it with with the boot parameter fromhd=<<insert device name>>

Thanks, I tried loading from harddisk, but can't get it to work. Maybe my limited Linux experience prevents me from getting it right. At the same time, my purpose is to not use the harddisk but to run only from the LiveCD.

I also experimented quite a lot with cheatcodes, USB-boot and I searched the web, without any success. Found some input in a Knoppix-forum that was not very encouraging. It stated that "the only Knoppix version that ever run on a Dell D400 is Knoppix 3.6". Hope this is not true.

I haven't been able to understand which Knoppix version DSL 3.0.1 is based on. Could someone tell?

Still hope to get around the problem, but start to lose hope...

DSL was based on Knoppix 3.4 afaik...

Did that person give a reason why it only worked on 3.6?

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