It boots if I type in "knoppix acpi=off".


knoppix@Microknoppix:/proc$ cat /proc/cmdline
ramdisk_size=100000 lang=en vt.default_utf8=0 apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt.gz nomce quiet loglevel=0 nolapic_timer BOOT_IMAGE=linux acpi=off

It was not a bad burn.