[ubuntu-uk] Which boot options on the live CD?

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Sat Nov 12 11:13:54 UTC 2011


On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 09:51:34AM +0000, Byte Soup wrote:
> I was looking ar a PC for a neighbour and tried to boot from a live CD to
> backup some data for them. The Ubuntu and Xubuntu live CDs wont boot, but a
> Knoppix DVD will boot and run just fine. How can I tell what if any boot
> options the knoppix system booted with?

  cat /proc/cpuinfo

But this may be a red herring; kernel differences may matter more, or it
could be something else depending on exactly what's going on.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]



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