Post #6 refered.

Seems that you are complicating it yourself. Knoppix booting is rather straight forward. The messages only come from mainly two locations.

1. 'init' inside 'minirt.gz'
2. after 'init', then all the rest of messages from /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig.

If there are a lot of messages flying on the screen, most likely it's one or more commands in /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig generated them.

Somewhere in the middle of /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig, knoppix started syslog. It's easy to modify /etc/syslog-knoppix.conf to redirect output to somewhere you can see. For my case, it's configured to go to /tmp/syslog.

When I say ctrl-alt-F1, we ask you to do it after have booted into the comfort of LXDE environment. It never worked for knoppix 6.2, but 'chvt 1' thingie inside a lxde terminal does the same thing.

What else you want to see ?