Quote Originally Posted by Harry Kuhman
You should be able to get Knoppix to boot into a text mode shell by typing knoppix 2 at the boot prompt.
Hi Harry,
That got me no further - Tux just sits happily waiting for the second coming. I expanded the line to

knoppix debug acpi=off pnpbios=off vga=normal pc=bios nohwsetup 2

and, while this now displayed the stream of messages, the same "blocks of colour" appears over the bottom of the screen immediately followed by clear screen and then nothing. I guess this could be some manner of a "reset" that goes nowhere...

The last line that either myself or another engineer here were able to observe was saying something about a scheduler.

Is there any way to freeze the processing - i.e. to stall the stream of lines going past such that we have some hope of getting closer to knowing roughly where the "crash" is occurring?