Hallo folks,
Info :Using knoppix 5.2 from c't magazine 7/2007 and following their instructions. One San Cruzer usb micro and 4 wd external harddrives (chained with firewire 400)

I tried knoppix (for the 1st time) last night on a sony vaio pcg 791m with win xp home edition sp2.
knoppix booted fine after i set "knoppix nopcmcia" - very impressive.
In the X windows environment everything was fine (except that the left hand mouse button did not work, but
I have this behaviour occasionally in winxp too since installing IE7! - so I'm off to buy a usb mouse anyway)

The real problem came after quitting the session properly. The machine went down, i removed the dvd. Then I switched the laptop on again. Everything seemed to be ok, but after some time when lights on the external drives flickered, the light in the usb stick went off. After this nothing more happened. The screen displayed the winxp logo with the progress bar moving left to right and back again.
I was in a mild panic. No control key worked - so I switched off the laptop.
I disconnected the usb stick and firewire cable.
On reboot I was given the chance to select last good configuration - but I just selected "normal".
The winxp booted successfully!
I plugged in the usb stick - fine.
Connected and switched on firewire - again fine.

I am quite relieved to have winxp back (if only because all my work's there, not because I'm a winxp fan!).

My question (finally) is:
Is this "normal" behaviour? - if so does anyone know why this might be so (knoppix is read only right)?
Should I go ahead and try knoppix again? - I'd like to, but I'm worried...
All help/advice/encouragement greatly appreciated.

Mike