Quote Originally Posted by OP
... did not cure the situation (MSI NX8500GT).

I was staring at the screen while booting and found message "Firewire found, managed by udev". Strange, i think, 'cause the motherboard has no Firewire port, just USB-ports and USB-HUB connected to the PC?

Thanks.
Type the following at the boot prompt:

knoppix nofirewire noudev

and see if it works.