How did you get Knoppix to boot without Vmlinuz?

If you read the Loadlin docs,

Loadlin requires you copy the kernel (either the 2.4 or the 2.6) to a file called vmlinuz with the other required files....... miniroot.gz, etc.

Depending on which kernel you copy to vmlinuz depends on which kernel you want to boot.

I understand v. 3.8 uses only the 2.6 kernel so you don't have a choice. But you still have to do it.

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