Quote Originally Posted by AJones
Is root mount the reason GRUB takes too long to appear or mount?
It shouldn't be; it's difficult to see what's going on here - some corruption maybe ?
BTW I see that you're dual-booting with Windows; did you install choosing the boot-loader to MBR, or to the root partition if using a third-party boot manager?
You might post your /boot/grub/menu.lst file contents (just the lines after 93 ! previous to that should be all comments).
Otherwise I'm tempted to suggest a re-installation from the original Live Knoppix CD/DVD, with testcd boot option to check for media errors.

Quote Originally Posted by AJones
The Linux HSF driver on my USb based HSF modem does not recognize the HSF modem although KInfoCenter lists it, I wonder why?
I've no experience of USB-based modems - you might have a look at answer #9 in
http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/User:Harry_Kuhman