Gilles,

We are making progress here. I am sorry to say that grub.exe returned an error: Sorry, only FreeDOS kernel 2032 is supported for grub. It's too bad since almost every school of thought claims that grub is the preferred bootloader. Plus, I am beginning to understand menu.lst and "grubspeak".

That's okay though, as I am making progress with loadlin.exe. I can get it to actually start the boot process!! However, it hangs because it claims it can not find the knoppix filesystem. This was using the following configuration:

linux24 nofirewire noscsi nodma fromhd=/dev/hda1 ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init initrd=minirt~1.gz quiet lang=us vga=normal

*the minirt~1.gz was required for this particular version of dos, the minirt24_ntfs.gz filename was causing issues. Once I renamed the file is when the boot process actually started.

I also added BOOT_IMAGE=k36.iso and still obtain the same results. I have also tried using fromhd=/dev/hda2 (the FAT32) with the same results.

Next, I am going to try using the bootfrom cheatcode as you suggested. I have a feeling that the bootfrom cheatcode is the key to this. If it will not work, then I will atttempt a boot from the knoppix loopback file located on the cd as /knoppix/knoppix.

I'll keep you updated on my progress. Thank you.

james