stuck on "scanning for harddisk partitions..."

[soofsoof]

I wanted to have Knoppix from CD. I burned the *.iso file (version 3.6) and booted from it. I choose the option "knoppix" and got all kinds of messages ("good" ones, about detecting which CPU, mouse and all). However, when it gets to:

"scanning for harddisk partitions and creating /etc/fstab..."

it gets stuck for long minutes. Nothing happens. The CDROM and Harddisk are not making any sounds of "working". Just stuck and nothing else happens.

Any ideas what to do?

[kelmo]

Maybe try a few cheatcodes at boot-time like:-

knoppix nodma

or a combonation of many.