I have two problems i need to talk about

Problem 1

Everytime i mount a drive in KDE (not the command line) it tells me i need a HAL. What the heck is a HAL and whare can i get this so called HAL so i can mount drives in KDE

command line mounting gets annoting

it doesnt do this in the Live-CD

also it sometimes tells me its the wrong fs when i mount my flash drive wich i didnt have this problem when i was in the LiveCD mode unless i mount it like this
Code:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
Problem 2

When i install Knoppix grub boots Knoppix but when i reboot it refuses to boot and it has a little delay in grub. after i do some grub commands in the command line Knoppix boots. but why does Knoppix refuse to boot when i reboot using the menu.