Sorry, the holidays had me a bit busy...

My motherboard is an ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe, and I'm using the on-board SATA controller. If I unplug only the failed drive, it boots without issue, which leads me to believe that the issue doesn't involve the SATA controller (there is another SATA drive in the system). When I just run "knoppix 2", the system hangs at "Starting udev hot-plug hardware detection..." Also, I am using Knoppix version 2.6.24.4.

When I ran "knoppix nodma noudev nofstab nomount noswap", I was able to finally boot...thanks! Now I just need to figure out if I can figure out how to run dd_rhelp on the failed drive. Any help would be much appreciated!

I apologize for the basic questions, but I've very new to Linux and don't really know my way around very well.