Quote Originally Posted by vhradice View Post
I took the dvd drive and the hd out of the pc and put them into a different pc. I used the dvd that I had been using and I was able to install Knoppix onto the hd. I booted several times and ran for a while. I then took the dvd drive and the hd and put them back into the original pc. When I tried to boot, it failed. I got the following messages:
error: Driver 'pata_platform' is already registered, aborting
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,1)

I booted UBCD and ran memory check for about 4 hours with no errors.

Memory is OK.
DVD drive is OK
DVD is OK.

What now? I have tried mounting the dvd drive, the hd, the floppy drive. All returned error - invalid option. Could there be a BIOS option I need to change? Is there a log created during initalization that I can somehow get at? I would realy hate having to leave it running windows because I can't get a Linux system loaded.
What I hear you saying is that the DVD itself and the DVD drive, plus the HD work fine in another system. Sounds like the original system has a hardware problem; I just got through sending my stepson's motherboard back to ASUS for a similar issue, and they replaced a couple of chips and his boot problem went away. Sorry to say it, but maybe you can get a working system under warranty, too.

Hope this helps!
Krishna