How would i go about booting KNOPPIX from a hard disk partition.

I am currently using Linux Mandrake 9.1 and have some spare partitions on my hard disk.

I have tried Syslinux, doing incredibly smart things with the images provided on cdrom and using command line options but get the following.

On boot prompt i type

knoppix initrd=minirt24.gz bootfrom=/dev/hda9/knoppix.iso

And i get a wonderful Welcome message but then

Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry.
Dropping you to a (very limited) shell.

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I am quite sure that i placed the knoppix.iso in the root of my /home partition which is mounted from /dev/hda9 (/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 according to the df command) and that is is indeed the complete iso images of the knoppix 3-6 cd.

Who could help me out here?