Ok, i got one to partly boot, using the highlighted entry in menu.lst, but got to a message

atkbd.c Spurious ACK on isa0060/serior0
Some program might be trying to access hardware directly
The highlighted entry is to boot the link to /boot/vmlinuz in the / directory.
# GRUB configuration file '/boot/grub/menu.lst'.
# generated by 'grubconfig'. Wed May 27 08:44:07 2009
#
# The backup copy of the MBR for drive '/dev/hda' is
# here '/boot/grub/mbr.hda.15599'. You can restore it like this.
# dd if=/boot/grub/mbr.hda.15599 of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
#
# Start GRUB global section
#timeout 30
color light-gray/blue black/light-gray
# End GRUB global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Linux (on /dev/hda1)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title knoppix (on /dev/hdb1)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title knoppix option2 (on /dev/hdb1)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz.2 root=/dev/hdb1 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title knoppix option3 (on /dev/hdb1)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Linux (on /dev/sda1)
root (hd2,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Other bootable partition config begins
title Windows (on /dev/hda2)
map (hd0,0) (hd0,1)
map (hd0,1) (hd0,0)
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1
# Other bootable partition config ends
That's some progress, but still comes to some bottleneck in the init scripts.

More later when I get that worked out.