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Christopher Negus

"Linux Bible, 2008 Edition: Boot up to Ubuntu, Fedora, KNOPPIX, Debian, openSUSE, and 11 Other Distributions"


knoppix noeject Don??™t eject the CD after KNOPPIX has stopped.
knoppix noprompt Don??™t prompt to remove the CD after KNOPPIX stops.
If there is hardware being improperly detected or configured, you can have KNOPPIX skip over
that hardware. Table 11-2 contains options for skipping or turning off various hardware features.
TABLE 11-2
Boot Options to Turn Off Hardware
Option Result
knoppix atapicd No SCSI emulation for IDE CD-ROMs.
knoppix noagp No detection of an AGP graphics card.
knoppix noapic Disable the Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (APIC). (This can
overcome some problems on SMP computers.)
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TABLE 11-2 (continued)
Option Result
knoppix acpi=off Disable the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI).
knoppix noapm No Advanced Power Management (APM) support. (With a working acpi, apm
will be off by default. Only one can be active at a time.)
knoppix noaudio No sound support.
knoppix nodhcp Don??™t try to start your network connection automatically via DHCP.
knoppix fstab Don??™t read the fstab file to find file systems to mount or check.
knoppix firewire No detection of Firewire devices.
knoppix nopcmcia No detection of PCMCIA card slots.
knoppix noscsi No detection of SCSI devices.


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