Knoppix 3.2, 3.4, and Feather all hang on boot at the point right after loading vmlinuz...... The screen clears and Tux appears, then nothing but a blinking cursor. CTL-ALT-DEL will not work at that point. The CD can be ejected. I've tried nodma, nopcmcia, noacip, acpi=off, etc... I've even tried expert and interactive. It always hangs at the same point.

The machine is a Slot-1 PIII-450, 384 Mb ram (8Mb shared video). The mobo is a PCChips 478LMRT. The onboard LAN is disabled in BIOS and a PCI LAN card is installed instead.

I'm at a loss - any ideas?