Dear Klaus,

The reiserf partition was listed as 6.

I edited the menu.lst using 6 but still no result ..... I even tried 5 and then 4.
The following is the result of trying to boot Knoppix:

"Booting 'KNOPPIX"

root (hd0,5)

Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
kernel/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 rootwait lang=us apm=power-off nomce libata
.force=noncq tz-localtime loglevel=1 rw

Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition"

What next ? ... if anything.

Regards,
ScottyJavea