Ejecting disc during shutdown?

[krishna.murphy]

Looks like there are multiple different versions of CDROM/DVDs which do different things in the syslinux.cfg/isolinux.cfg, with different parameters and cheatcodes.

The actual work of ejecting the cdrom is in /etc/init.d/knoppix-halt, so you should check that it's intact. Assuming that's intact, then you should check if your syslinux.cfg/isolinux.cfg contains things like 'noeject'/'noprompt' which will inhibit the eject of cdrom and its prompting.

You will be surprised that if I tell you the copy of KNOPPIX 6.2 CDROM which I have does eject the cdrom which shutting down.

Since demonstrating Knoppix-boot-from-CD is the goal, perhaps it's best to just shut down with the power switch! You can eject after switching the power back on, thus showing that the original OS is unaffected by Knoppix.

Cheers!
Krishna
p.s. My Knoppix 6.2.0 does the eject function properly, too; probably good to run the self-test on the disk to make sure that what you show around is in good shape.