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It's hard to see what's going wrong within your different grub without direct access to your computer.



Start your new installation
Open (as root) the file '/boot/grub/menu.lst
Append in...

Yes it looks like you are booting with grub from the old installation and therefore you see the grub menü from the old one.
To install grub from the new installation at 'dev/sdb2' within the MBR of...

You can delete the three lines of Windows entry. After this tell us the output of
cat /boot/grub/menu.lst

(.. and rest of this line)
instead of this insert all the same as in the 3rd line of the block

title KNOPPIX
root (hd1.1)
kernel ...

To insert the boot option for the old installation start with
su
mcedit /boot/grub/menu.lstand insert this three lines

title KNOPPIX old installation
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz...

Use double "new line" for new section.

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Please tell us in which partition of your HD you had installed the old version of Knoppix (7.0.5) and in which partition you have now installed the new version (7.2). What is the ouput within a...