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Hello Klaus: I read your advice in LM Jan 2012 regarding installation on a hard disk. I followed the instructions for 1GB swap partition and ReiserFS partition, and Knoppix 7 installed without any problems, but something is going wrong with the GRUB bootloader. It displays a menu but doesn't respond to the keyboard and doesn't default boot on timeout either.
I am installing on an old Acer Travelmate 3750 laptop with a P3 processor. It has problems in that it doesn't work at all without a mains connection and complains about CMOS settings on startup. That just means I have to boot and then set the time/date – it worked fine with Ubuntu Maverick but was just a bit too slow, which is why I decided to try Knoppix instead.
Although I am unable to boot Knoppix direct from the CD (cannot change CMOS boot order – it doesn't save new settings), I can boot off a floppy disk with bootloader software and then select to boot from CD, after which the CD version of Knoppix 7.0 boots and runs fine. Again, it is just a bit slow, hence my attempt to install on the HD.
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