i can boot knoppix 3.3 (burned around december 2003) with no problems

however, when i try to boot knoppix 3.4 with boot=knoppix26, i get past searching for cdrom fine and then i get about 5 screens of "cloop: error -5" messages, a couple "bus error" and

/linuxrc: cannot create /var/run/utmp: directory nonexistent
kernel panic: vfs: unable to mount root fs on ram3

if this is my hardware, then why does 3.3 boot every single time without problems?

this is on 430w, k8v se deluxe, amd64 3000+, corsair 1gb pc3200 ddr400, wd 200gb sata, lg 54x cdrom liteon ldw-811 dvdrw, 6800 gt 256meg, audigy 2 oem...

what gives? :( and i liked knoppix so.. sniff