Has anyone got Initng working with knoppix 5.1?

Just ran
apt-get update
apt-get install initng
apt-get install bootchart

I have included a new stanza in grub for initng as below:

title knoppix 5.11
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 rw nofstab nohwsetup nodhcp lang=uk apm=power-off nomce vga=791
initrd /boot/initrd.img
savedefault
boot

title knoppix Initng
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 rw nofstab nohwsetup nodhcp lang=uk apm=power-off nomce vga=791 init=/sbin/initng
initrd /initrd


The initng starts to load but then I get a message error at line 22. At this early stage nothing is wrote to dmesg so I cant debug this.
Initng looks very promising, but so far I have failed to get it working on 5 different linux systems, Im just not clever enough to work out
the init scripts and booting process required by each distribution.

Thanks in advance for any help on this.