I love the idea of Knoppix, but unfortunately haven't been able to check it for myself - whenever I try to boot from CD I get two error messages:

#1 "initrd extends beyond range of memory (0x1bff5db4)"

and then, a few seconds later...

#2 "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount roof fs on 01:01"

And then the boot hangs there forever (well, probably; obviously I haven't actually left it quite that long!)

Does anyone know what the problem might be and if there's a way to get around it? Any suggestions gratefully very received.


I'm running an AMD Athlon 1600 with 512Mb RAM and 40G HDD, if that's any help.

Stu