Can't load from LiveCD - no real answer

[Igor]

Thank windos_no_thank for trying help me. But I must repeat my question.
When I try to load from LiveCD 2003-11-14, system hang after message "AGP bridge detected". "testcd" show OK. "failsafe", "knoppix 2", "noagp", "noaudio" and other "no..." - situation not changed (in some mode last message is "Skipping AGP detection"). When I try boot in "expert" mode (why "expert"? I see only trivial hardware question about selection mouse, keyboard layout), I see, that all devices (include all IDE) recognized correctly except NIC (and no driver for sound). Where can be a problem?
Configuration:
- Celeron 800
- mb VIA85 on VIA Apollo chipset
- memory 192 Mb
- ide0 master - 80 Gb Barracuda (all partition in NTFS)
- ide0 slave - 40 Gb Fujitsu (all partition in NTFS)
- ide1 master - Toshiba 1312 DVD/CD-RW
- ide1 slave - ZIP 100 Mb
- video AGP Riva TNT 16 Mb (ASUS3400)
- NIC 3Com509B (ISA slot, not PnP)
- audio AD1618 (ISA slot)

[scruffyeagle]

Hi, Igor!

Nobody's answered, so I thought I'd toss out my comment just in case it might help you. I have a HP XE744 w/ original CDR replaced w/ a Lite-On LTN486 CDR. It has a 731 MHz Celeron CPU and 64 MB RAM. It wouldn't boot Knoppix v3.4; defaulted to a minimal interface command prompt. Using "nodma" in the boot command line got past that, allowing KDE to run.

Scruffy