You could also use an Ubuntu LiveCD ;)
Both are based on Debian... but perhaps it goes better for these things.
JeDi wrote:
> I had trouble with knoppix and my multicard reader too. The kernel
> parameter didn't seem to work. And recompiling the kernel in knoppix
> isn't very easy I'm afraid. Maybe you should try to find some windows
> ext2 tools? I'm not sure where you can find them, or if they even
> exist though...
>
> Good luck!
>
> Greetz,
> JeDi
>
>
> On 1/5/06, Eduardo Alvarez <ealvarez_at_hob.com.mx> wrote:
>
>>Hi All!
>>
>>I've been following the progress around a few months, and now I can test it
>>by myself.
>>
>>I having big trouble with a multicard reader for my SD card on linux.
>>
>>I don't have linux installed, but I'm using knoppix live CD 4.0.02.
>>
>>The problem is the card reader is detected, but only recognizes 1 of 3 card
>>slots.
>>
>>The first slot is for smartmedia cards, the second is for
>>sd/mmc/memorystick, so I cannot get access to the sd slot.
>>
>>I read an al info in the knoppix forums about for multicard readers you must
>>to recompile the kernel for probe all lun's, but another says that passing
>>this parameter to the boot prompt solves the issue:
>>knoppix 2 max_scsi_luns=3
>>
>>the first boots the kernel image, the second is the initialization level
>>(text only) and the third passes the flag to scan 3 luns to the kernel.
>>
>>Since this usb multireader card is the only scsi emulated or real device
>>there's no needed a major number of luns, even tough, I tried passing over
>>12.
>>
>>But the problem persists, the device is detected as usb mass storage device
>>with SCSI emulation, but at the dmesg output:
>>
>>Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
>>
>>And it supposed my sd slot would be /dev/sdb but no more info lines at
>>dmesg.
>>
>>Obviously when I tried to pass fdisk -l /dev/sdb nothing has to see.
>>
>>Some one knows what flags has to be writed in a boot prompt?
>>
>>I'm using the knoppix 4.0.02 kernel 2.6.6.
>>
>>Thanks by the advance!
>>
>>Eduardo
>>
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