booting knoppix on laptop with no hard drive

[neamcd]

I changed the bios order on an old dell latitude laptop so i could install linux, and afterward, the computer seems to think it has no hard drive. i have tried putting a different hard drive that i know works in the bay, but still the computer acts as if there were no hard drive at all.

i have successfully booted a mandrake move disk on this computer, but knoppix seems to hang at hardware detection. is there a cheat code i can use to make knoppix skip hard drive detection at boot up?

thank you

neal

[UnderScore]

boot knoppix with the cheat code:
knoppix nofstab

[lissyx]

Perhaps it's the same ?
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18245

[neamcd]

okay. thank you both for the help.