Hello i have a toshiba sattelite 2435-s255 laptop P4 2.4ghz intell prosseser 512meg of ram nvidia 420 go card, I have ben trying to get knopix to run on my computer. I know the cd works cause i have used it on 3 other computers to fix them/ play around before i tryed it on my laptop. I get to the boot screen so i know that i can boot it up ( at least i think that is what the boot screen inplays) i have run bart PE and my own PE biuld on here so i know that it can boot off of cd's fine and run in the ram fine. I have ben all over the net looking for any one that has done a live distro on this type of laptop but the cloest i have found is a HD install of readhat 8 ( i think ) so no help there. I have looked all over this forum and still have nothing to show for it. i have tryede every cheat i can find and every combo i can think of( i might have missed a cheat or combo fo them ) the only two things i can figure out that might be my problem are these:
1) my computer is runnign a pheonix (sp?) bios and a few places said that it might give me a hard time running linux. also i am woundering if my computer does not like the lilo boot that linux does ( might be way of base haven't used linux for a wile and not that much then)
2) my computer stinks so much that i am stuck running windows XP with litestep/fluxbox for windows

I have tryed other distros suse 9.1 live, morphix, debian, all give me the same error. I type in boot ro fail sae or what ever cheat code i try and it loads the first to lines and then when it swiches screens it stops. I once let it sit there all day wile i went to work hoping that it jsut might be real laggy but nope. not even a flicker.

does any one have an idea on how to get knoppix to work on my laptop? HD install is not an option due to the fact that i use it to much for work and play ( both need xp )
Please any help or ideas?