forester,
I have no clue how you got the patches working or what I am doing wrong on my end.
I retried to apply all the patches a couple of times but got kernel panic or other problems.
Now I just decided to apply generalise.txt on a new minirt.gz and make no other modifications.
after booting up he tries to search for knoppix a couple of times in usb and hard drives but never finds them.
then in red there pops up "could not mount disk to mnt-system. Starting debug shell..."
and I can navigate around
/KNOPPIX is empty
/KNOPPIX-DATA non-existing
/mnt-system empty
...

where did I made a mistake?