sorry for the delayed reply, i just got caught up with some other linux stuff and then i couldn't get back to this laptop for a day here is that post.txt

+ uname -va
Linux Knoppix 2.6.11 #3 SMP Mon May 2 00:19:56 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
+ cat /etc/knoppix-version
3.8.2 2005-05-05
+ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

22 0 39070080 hdc
22 1 40131 hdc1
22 2 25358602 hdc2
22 3 1 hdc3
22 5 1004031 hdc5
22 6 8001 hdc6
22 7 6008278 hdc7
22 8 6650878 hdc8
240 0 1764736 cloop0
+ mount /mnt/hdc8
+ ls --color=auto -a /mnt/hdc8
.
..
.Xauthority
.xsession-errors
bin
boot
cdrom
dev
etc
floppy
home
initrd
lib
lost+found
mnt
none
proc
root
sbin
sys
tmp
usr
var
vmlinuz

the symbolic link in the boot folder is pointing to the 2.6 kernel, plus the 2.4 kernel is on a whole nother partition