Hello.

First post!

I'm having problems booting from my Knoppix 3.1 CD - it always hangs during boot, specifically, at this point:
Code:
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VIA vt92c686a (rev 1b) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci 00:07.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
And we see nothing more. I'm using a board based on VIA 694X. Yes, I know my board is cheap, old and slow (UDMA66, really!).

To get here in the first place, I've had to avoid using framebuffer with vga=normal or knoppix-txt. I've had exactly the same hang in the same place with both Debian woody and Mandrake 9.0 (by the way, I am dual-booting them) -- in these cases it's been the fault of the framebuffer, but avoiding using it has been enough to get around the problem. If I use framebuffer with Knoppix, it hangs on the line:

Code:
Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent.
Which is right at the beginning of the messages shown! I do have the Knoppix "cheatcodes" and have tried disabling hardware autodetection for everything I can, i.e. noapm noapic noagp nodma noscsi nousb, but it's made no difference at all. No damage is caused by this hang, and I can restart and boot using LILO without any problems. But I want my Knoppix!

What surprises me is that although the same thing happens with woody (and Mandrake), I can fix the problem easily -- but my solution doesn't work in Knoppix. This doesn't make sense, given what Knoppix is based on.

I'd appreciate any advice about how I might go about fixing or just bypassing this problem.