Quote Originally Posted by ckamin
refuse to accept the solution.
I accept the possibility of writing speed being the cause of the problem. I, however, found a different solution.
Quote Originally Posted by ckamin
"knoppix nodma"
This did not alter the error

The solution was to use KNOPPIX_V4.0.2. This booted the machine fine. A small problem was it not having lvm v2, but I get this off a floppy (after modprobe dm_mod) to solve that problem. This solution did not surprise me as a Gentoo 2007 disk does not boot the machine but a 2006 does.

Harry Kuhman and ckamin, thank you both for your replies.

Regards
Fog_Watch