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Knoppix won't boot properly on Thinkpad T410

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Knoppix won't boot properly on Thinkpad T410

#1 Post by Erentigionation » Sun Jul 08, 2018 10:23 am

I'm new to Thinkpads, having used Macbooks for most of my life. I just bought a refurbished Thinkpad T410 from Amazon. I wanted to boot into my Knoppix live CD so that I could use some of the programming tools that aren't available in Windows. I changed the boot order in the BIOS and booted off the live CD as usual. It booted perfectly fine, and showed the splash screen and the load messages on the VC. However, once it was finished booting, rather than loading the LXDE desktop, it simply went to a blank screen. I tried booting up multiple times, and every time it just loaded to a blank screen. I don't actually need to boot into Knoppix (that was simply all I had available at the time; I plan to boot into Arch Linux later), but I'm just concerned that I will experience similar problems in other live distros. I'd like to understand what caused this problem, whether it will affect other distros besides Knoppix, and if so, how can I fix it.

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Re: Knoppix won't boot properly on Thinkpad T410

#2 Post by axur-delmeria » Sun Jul 08, 2018 10:34 am

1. How old is that Knoppix Live CD?
2. Does your T410 have Intel or nVidia graphics?
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Re: Knoppix won't boot properly on Thinkpad T410

#3 Post by Erentigionation » Sun Jul 08, 2018 10:39 am

axur-delmeria wrote:
Sun Jul 08, 2018 10:34 am
1. How old is that Knoppix Live CD?
2. Does your T410 have Intel or nVidia graphics?
The live CD is from 2010. The graphics adapter is from Intel.

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Re: Knoppix won't boot properly on Thinkpad T410

#4 Post by axur-delmeria » Sun Jul 08, 2018 11:33 am

Try to get a more recent version of Knoppix. Maybe the one you have doesn't have proper support for Intel HD graphics.
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Re: Knoppix won't boot properly on Thinkpad T410

#5 Post by Cigarguy » Sun Jul 08, 2018 11:39 am

Not difficult and cost nothing to download a more recent version of any Linux live CD. Boot from that and see what happens.

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Re: Knoppix won't boot properly on Thinkpad T410

#6 Post by Erentigionation » Sun Jul 08, 2018 6:06 pm

Well, booting the Arch live distro works perfectly fine, so I'm guessing it's just a problem with that version of Knoppix. I don't understand why there would be a support problem with the graphics adapter, considering that the T140 model is from 2000.

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Re: Knoppix won't boot properly on Thinkpad T410

#7 Post by RealBlackStuff » Sun Jul 08, 2018 7:04 pm

It's T410 from 2010!
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Re: Knoppix won't boot properly on Thinkpad T410

#8 Post by Cigarguy » Sun Jul 08, 2018 7:07 pm

T410, T140, year 2000? I'm confused. Never heard of the T140. http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkPad_History

I don't understand the hesitation to download and run the latest version of Knoppix.

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Re: Knoppix won't boot properly on Thinkpad T410

#9 Post by jaspen-meyer » Sun Jul 08, 2018 8:08 pm

often there is a kernel parameter which can solve this sort of graphics problem. Or, you boot into run level 3.
vga=normal
fb=off
are a few which may work. Search around for other boot parameters.
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