Hi,

as I alreaday mentioned, the dvd is working perfectly, I can boot it flawlessly on other machines, or copy it to another one. The Md5 sums of course match, I check that regularely before burning an image. The image is from the torrent networtk of course, or is there another official source already?

I want to point out again that the problem is not that the software crashes, my major concern is that a piece of hardware (in this case my dvd drive) crashes after trying to boot knoppix. I can reproduce that behaviour here anytime.

What really makes me wonder is why knoppix is trying to access that device as /dev/hdc - does it think my dvd drive is a harddrive an use a wrong routine to access?

Please also note that after the knoppix splash-screen where I can select the boot , the error-message mentioned above is the first (and only) message I receive.