Finally! Success. I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing, but it works for 3.4 with the 2.4 series kernel. I sort''ve understood what I was doing with the cheatcodes for 3.3 (knoppix nopcmcia ide2=0x180,0x386) but I've now got a boot line that reads like something out of Harry Potter: knoppix amp=off no-hlt ide-cs pci=off nopcmcia ide2=0x180,0x386 home=/dev/hda2, Now I've got to play with it and find out what is superfluous in this ugainly beast