BOOT ISSUES

[amag]

System -
K7N2GM2-LSR Nforce 2 w/ Xp-2200+
384mb DDR 400 ram
Ti200 - 64mb Video card
40gb WD drive
52x cdrom
Sb Live 5.1
Compaq laptop 710US duron 1ghz, 256mb, 20gb hd, 16mb shared video

Problem -
Knoppix 3.3 works and boots fine, no errors
Knoppix 3.4 - desktop - dark screen lap - dark screen
Knoppix 3.6 - boots with errors, get into screen locks Lap - dark screen even using FB command
Knoppix 3.7 - boot screen then lock
My p3 system will run all versions...is this an amd issue?

[Harry Kuhman]

...is this an amd issue?

Sounds like an issue, but it really depends on choices you make.

The newer versions of Knoppix are more agressive in turning on features (like DMA) that used to be off in older versions. I have a notebook that had a similar priblem, I found that I had to use a combination of two cheat codes (noscsi and acpi=off in that case). I also have an older desktop that was getting errors like mad on a known good CD, could not start X. In that case the NODMA cheat code solved everything. I don't know of any good way to find what combination of cheat codes you might need except trial and error.