Knoppix boot problems

[grob]

I put the knoppix CD in, and reboot my computer. The boot prompt comes up. It seems everything I choose except "failsafe" causes my screen to go black after a quick kernel load and my computer is hung. Even "testcd" causes this black screen and computer hang.

When I choose "failsafe" the load messages scroll down my screen then the process again hangs my computer. The last two lines are
"enabled ExtINT on CPU#0"
"ESR value before enabling vector: 00000002"

My computer runs winME, winXP, and Suse Linux 6.4 without any problems.

I burned a new knoppix CD at 2x recording speed to ensure no burning errors. Still the exact same result.

I am running the KNOPPIX_V3.3-2003-11-19-EN.iso image.

The documentation did not help much. I also tried booting with as many of the "no" options such as "nousb" as was possible. This also did not work.

Any help would be appreciated. I would be glad to try and debugging or verbose error reporting techniques if there are any available.

[windos_no_thanks]

Perhaps you could make it a little easier by telling us what hardware you have ? :-)
Also, you say it runs Suse already so you can check the md5 sum of the ISO file, have you done that ?

[grob]

Yes, the md5 sum matches the .md5 data file on the download site. It is "8f841bae907f828ed7a36a0213746ab1 *KNOPPIX_V3.3-2003-11-19-EN.iso".

Here is a hardware list:
AMD Athlontm XP 1500
USB Human Interface Device (usb keyboard)
Microsoft USB Wheel Mouse Optical
D-Link DWL-520 Wireless PCI Adapter
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440
VIA AC97 Enhanced Audio Controller
_NEC NR-7900A (ide cd r/w)
Maxtor 6Y080L0 (80gb IDE hd)
AMI bios Release date: 20010402.
1024 meg ram

Hopefully that is everything, is there anything else you want to know?

[windos_no_thanks]

Hopefully that is everything, is there anything else you want to know?
Well, since you have Suse running I guess the output of "lspci -v" might be useful.
What burner software did you use ?
I'm not sure I can solve this one myself but there are many eyes looking at this list (some of them belonging to smarter people than me ;-) ) so someone might recognize the hardware giving you problems. :-)

[windos_no_thanks]

Hmm, a little googling suggests that APIC might be causing this.
Have you tried the "noapic" cheat code ?
You may also need to disable APIC in the BIOS if that is possible.

[grob]

That was it.

My box actually was running with APIC set to off. When I set it to on, emulation to v1.4 it ran fine. Even the normal no flags knoppix boot.

Thank you for the help!