I have read, and went back and re burned my knoppix from 8x to 4x, I'm still getting this when I try to boot from the cd:

(in red text) ERROR: CANNOT UNITE READ-ONLY MEDIA AND INITIAL RAMDISK! (in gray text) Shutdown: hda system halted

(in green text) >>read-only CD system successfully merged with read-write/ramdisk

(in gray text) /linuxrc:cannot create /var/run/utmp:directory nonexistent No filesystem could mount root, tried reiserfs
ext3 ext2 msdos vfat iso9660 fuseblk

kernel panic - not syncing : VFS:Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (1,3)

I don't really know what that means but I thought it would be helpful to have the whole thing.