Hi,

I am trying knoppix for the first time. I like the way it configured
itself on my machine. This made me want to install it to the hard
drive.

I have an old AMD Duron 800 with SIS 630. When booting from the CD, I
had to specify the xvrefresh=75 and screen=1024x768 for it to come up
properly, otherwise it failed (screen was not visible).

Also because of the shared memory for the video card, I need to
specify the mem= on the boot options as well.

After I got through these problems, the CD-based session worked well.

I currently have a dual boot between Debian Woody and Windows XP. I
want to replace Debian with Knoppix. knx-hdinstall seems to use only
two partitions (swap and root), so the partitioning scheme that I had
created for debian could not be used. I just chose one of the large
partitions for the root filesystem and proceeded.

I think lilo had problems, but I couldn't read any error messages as
the hdinstaller went to the next step immediately.

Upon booting, I still saw the "old" lilo screen from my debian
installation. Needless to say, choosing one of those options failed
miserably.

I rebooted with the knoppix CD and tried to run lilo by hand. I
mounted the filesystem that I had installed as the root filesystem
through "mount -o rw /mnt/hdb6". Then I did "cd /mnt/hdb6; chroot ."
All this seemed to work fine. I could see the /etc/lilo.conf (in
/mnt/hdb6) having the boot device as /dev/hdb. I tried running lilo -
it says "Fatal: cannot open /dev/hdb". I tried changing it to /dev/hda
with the same results.

What can I do to proceed?

Thanks,
Sridhar