Normal boot does not work with the following configuration. I can boot by typing "linux failsafe" at the boot prompt but I receive a warning This is using Linux Magazine Knoppix 5.3.1DVD

this is the output of lspci -v

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 5000
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000b000-0000bfff
Memory behind bridge: f4000000-f7ffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000e0000000-00000000efffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 5004
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at e100 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 5004
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
I/O ports at e200 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 5004
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at e000 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 5006
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
Memory at fa205000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device a002
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
Memory at fa200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff
Memory behind bridge: fa000000-fa0fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
Memory behind bridge: f8000000-f9ffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000fa300000-00000000fa3fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 5004
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
I/O ports at e300 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 5004
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at e400 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 5004
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at e500 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 5006
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
Memory at fa204000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=05, sec-latency=32
Memory behind bridge: fa100000-fa1fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801IR (ICH9R) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 5001
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801IR/IO/IH (ICH9R/DO/DH) 4 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device b002
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
I/O ports at f000 [size=16]
I/O ports at fc00 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 5001
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 19
Memory at fa206000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
I/O ports at 0500 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
Kernel modules: i2c-i801

00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device b002
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at e700 [size=8]
I/O ports at e800 [size=4]
I/O ports at e900 [size=8]
I/O ports at ea00 [size=4]
I/O ports at eb00 [size=16]
I/O ports at ec00 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600 GTS (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8241
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at f4000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at b000 [size=128]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at f7000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: nvidiafb

03:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device b000
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ahci

03:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device b000
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
I/O ports at c000 [size=8]
I/O ports at c100 [size=4]
I/O ports at c200 [size=8]
I/O ports at c300 [size=4]
I/O ports at c400 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: JMicron IDE

04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device e000
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 219
I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
Memory at f9000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at fa300000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169

05:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 1000
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19
Memory at fa104000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Memory at fa100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ohci1394
Kernel modules: ohci1394