I think I will wait for a while before I do further posts. As I was thinking about it, since I tested everything using knoppix 6.2 as the base, maybe in 6.2.1 or 6.3 these have been changed. Then I was probably shooting in the air then.

Unless someone could post the minirt.gz and /etc/init.d/knoppix-halt for 6.3 in this forum then at least I could confirm it .....