From Knoppix Documentation Wiki

How Knoppix 4.0.2 CD boots.

A series of screen shots demonstrating the boot commands mentioned in the Tips&Tricks section of the Cheatcodes documentation.

Based on booting Knoppix 3.8.2, which is the wiki version of what became Appendix A of the Hacking Knoppix book.

List of images.

Contents 1 boot: knoppix 1.1 boot 1.2 graphics mode 1.3 shutdown 2 boot: knoppix vga=0 3 boot: knoppix acpi=off pnpbios=off noapic noapm 4 boot: knoppix vga=0 debug -b 3 5 boot: failsafe debug -b 3 6 boot: knoppix debug -b 3 6.1 boot 6.2 stage 1 6.3 stage 2 6.4 stage 3 6.5 stage 4 - "emergency mode" 6.6 stage 5 - text mode 6.7 stage 6 - graphics mode 6.8 shutdown 1 6.9 shutdown 2 6.10 shutdown 7 boot: memtest

[edit] boot: knoppix

These series of screen shots show what should happen when you boot Knoppix by simply pressing Enter/Return at the "boot:" prompt or by using the following boot command:

boot: knoppix

[edit] boot

http://cwelug.org/~rwcitek/knoppix/images/images.40/boot.png	http://cwelug.org/~rwcitek/knoppix/images/images.40/boot.f2.png	http://cwelug.org/~rwcitek/knoppix/images/images.40/boot.f3.png
Splash	F2	F3

[edit] graphics mode

http://cwelug.org/~rwcitek/knoppix/images/images.40/graphicsmode.png

[edit] shutdown

http://cwelug.org/~rwcitek/knoppix/images/images.40/shutdown.png

[edit] boot: knoppix vga=0

[edit] boot: knoppix acpi=off pnpbios=off noapic noapm

[edit] boot: knoppix vga=0 debug -b 3

[edit] boot: failsafe debug -b 3

[edit] boot: knoppix debug -b 3

These series of screen shots show what should happen when you boot Knoppix using the following boot command:

boot: knoppix debug -b 3

[edit] boot

http://cwelug.org/~rwcitek/knoppix/images/images.40/boot.png	http://cwelug.org/~rwcitek/knoppix/images/images.40/boot.f2.png	http://cwelug.org/~rwcitek/knoppix/images/images.40/boot.f3.png
Splash	F2	F3

[edit] stage 1

http://cwelug.org/~rwcitek/knoppix/images/images.40/stage1.png

[edit] stage 2

http://cwelug.org/~rwcitek/knoppix/images/images.40/stage2.png

[edit] stage 3

http://cwelug.org/~rwcitek/knoppix/images/images.40/stage3.png

[edit] stage 4 - "emergency mode"

http://cwelug.org/~rwcitek/knoppix/images/images.40/stage4.png

[edit] stage 5 - text mode

http://cwelug.org/~rwcitek/knoppix/images/images.40/textmode.png

[edit] stage 6 - graphics mode

http://cwelug.org/~rwcitek/knoppix/images/images.40/graphicsmode.png

[edit] shutdown 1

http://cwelug.org/~rwcitek/knoppix/images/images.40/shutdown1.png

[edit] shutdown 2

http://cwelug.org/~rwcitek/knoppix/images/images.40/shutdown2.png

[edit] shutdown

http://cwelug.org/~rwcitek/knoppix/images/images.40/shutdown.png

[edit] boot: memtest

• boot

http://cwelug.org/~rwcitek/knoppix/images/images.40/boot.memtest.png

• memtest

http://cwelug.org/~rwcitek/knoppix/images/images.40/memtest.png