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Copy both the kernel AND minirt.gz to a media that is accessible to grub.

I was talking to some people in ##Linux chatroom. I was inquiring on how I could start the CDROM manually. There replay was to look info on what is technically called an "initrd pivot". Once I had a grasp what the purpose of minirt.gz was, the pieces fell together in my mind.

Once the kernel and minirt.gz are a grub accessible media, I need a minimum of three lines. The 'kernel' line that tells grub where I put the kernel. A second 'initrd' line tells where I put 'minirt.gz'. When grub gets to the boot line, it starts the kernel up and hands it minirt.gz. minirt.gz is packed with intelligent startup scripts. The (minirt.gz)s that comes with Knoppix 5.1 and Knoppix 4.6 are both pretty smart they were both able to find the operating system on the USB CDROM with no farther instructions. Although it is possible that setting 'fromhd=/dev/sr0' could speed things up a few seconds, by avoiding a hunt for the OS.

All the other cheat sheet info is good for setting hardware and the graphics mode. I built something after reading http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Cheat_Codes

The solution given by kl522 is good, provided that the kernel and initrd lines point to the location where I copied them to. Before I understood what initrd was, I would have tried to point to it's location on the USB-CDROM. Which would not have worked, because grub can't see the USB-CDROM.