I tried it again this morning, entering the knoppix home=scan command into the prompt, and it seemed to work, however, after restarting the computer (after making some changes to the homedir), it once again brought me to a blank screen. Fortunately, I think I now know the cause of the problem.

When the computer starts booting up, my Mp3 player (which is in the Removable Disk mode) says 'Do Not Disconnect!', which, I'm assuming means it is being used. Then, once I enter a command into the boot screen (usually knoppix home=scan), the Mp3 Player stops showing the "Do Not Disconnect" message, and just shows the default message (which is "Removable Disk Mode") .

From what I understand, during the booting process (after the prompt) it loses connection with the Mp3 player, and thus cannot find the image, therefore hanging on the blank screen.

My BIOS finds the Mp3 Player in the USB Devices, thus I think its probably a knoppix-related problem. If anyone has any ideas on how to resovle the issue, please let me know.

Thanks,
illu45

EDIT:

I tried entering knoppix 2 into the prompt, and got the same result. Also, I tried using vga = normal, and it said 'Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel" or something of the sort, and then proceeded to hang.