I asked in the laptop, but no repsonse, so here goes.

I just grabbed the latest version 3.6

Again, when I attempt to start using "knoppix26", it kernel-panics. It
scrolls way too fast to see where it starts, but I see this on the
screen.

printing eip:
c01908a2
*pde = 0000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<c01908a2>] Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010286 (2,6,7)
EIP is at sysfs_hash__and_remove+0x6/0xf9
eax: 000000000 ebx: c04255534 ecx: c13a326c edx: c0364890
esi: 000000000 edi: 000000001 ebp: c04253c0 esp: c1233e40
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Proess swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo=c1232000 task=c1235670)
Stack: c04255534 c0364990 c0202dd5 00000000 c042555c c0425534 c04258d0 c0202ed3
c04255534 c0425534 c020231f c0425534 c0425534 c042544c c0202357 c0425534
c12320000 c0229d7e c0425534 c13a7b48 c1290000 c7ec5798 00000000 00000001
Call Trace:
[<c0202dd5>] device_release_driver+0x19/0x50
[<c0202ed3>] bus_remove_device+0x33/0x60
[<c020231f>] device_del+0x3f/0x6c
[<c0202537>] device_unregister+0xb/0x6c
[<c0229d7e>] ide_unregister+0x3f2/0x51c
[<c022a060>] ide_register_hw+0x15c/0x16c
[<c0235d3e>] idepnp_probe+0x9a/0xc4
[<c01e7b74>] match_device+0x24/0x3c
[<c0235ca4>] idepnp_probe+0x0/0xc4
[<c01e7cc2>] pnp_device_probe+x4e/0x88
[<c0202ca6>] bus_match+0x2e/0x50
[<c0202d97>] driver_attach+0x2e/0x50
[<c0202f60>] bus_add_driver+0x60/0x6c
[<c02031fc>] driver_register+0x34/0x38
[<c01e7d74>] pnp_register_driver+0x28/0x58
[<c03cdcea>] pnpide_init+0xa/0xc
[<c03cd584>] ide_init+0xa/0xc
[<c03b484b>] do_initcalls+0x44/0x5c
[<c01004dc>] init+0xe0/0x234
[<c01003f4>] init+0x0/0x234
[<c0104221>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xc

Code: 0b 46 0c 8d 48 6c f0 ff48 6c 0f // e3 00 00 00 ff 74 24 10
<0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!