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Welcome to the KNOPPIX live GNU/Linux on DVD!
Running Linux kernel 2.6.19.
Total memory available: 514168kB, Memory free: 505364kB.
Scanning for USB/Firewire devices... Done.
Enabling DMA acceleration for: hda [Maxtor 6Y080L0]
Enabling DMA acceleration for: hdc [Samsung CDRW/DVD SM-352B]
Looking for DVD in: /dev/hdc
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this happened to my computer also, i had a usb disk drive in my computer and it stalled scanning that drive. i rebooted with the usb drive unplugged and all worked fine. when kde booted up, i was able to plug my usb drive back in and knoppix reconized it fine.
hope this helps