Problem Booting KNOPPIX

[soar]

I am having problem booting my KNOPPIX CD. The CD boots and i get to the boot: prompt. WHEn i hit the enter key i get the following:

Welcome to KNOPPIX live linux on CD
Acessing KNOPPIX CdROM at /dev/scd0
Total memory found: 110644KB
creating the directories and symlinks on ramdisk ....scsi: aborting command due to timeout: pid 83,scsi 0, channel 0, ...............
hdb:timeout waiting for DMA
hdb:ide_dma_timeout: lets do it again:stat:0xd0,dma_stat=0x60
hdb:dma diabled
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000018
printing eip:c01c2f95
*pde=00000000
Oops:0000
CPU:0
EIP:0010{ ,c01c2f95.} not tainted
EFLAGS:00010286
eax:............
text removed
Process swapper (pid: 0,stackpage=c02bd000)
stack:{some series of numbers mixed with letters}
code : 8b 56 18 c7 44 24 18 00 00 00 00 89 70 04 c7 46 10 00 00 00
(o) kernel parnic:Aiee, killing interrupt handler
In interrupt handler- not syncing....


Any one understand why am getting this message and how to get t use the KNOPPIX CD.
My Pc is a AMD ATHLON P4 1.3GHZ
40GB HDD
128 MB RAM

Will be waiting to hear from You.

[DavidTempler]

Which version are you using?

Have you tried any cheat codes?

Are you booting CD from start-up?


D.T.

[Stephen]

Try knoppix nodma at the boot: prompt.

[code_monkey]

i tryed the knoppix nodma and it didn't work

[deathmas]

did you find the answer to your problem I am having the same problem and been reading forums with no real answer found yet

[Stephen]

did you find the answer to your problem I am having the same problem and been reading forums with no real answer found yet

Perhaps you could post the error you get along with some specifications of the machine you are using along with any steps you take when you boot and any cheat codes you have tried at a minimum I would suggest using just failsafe at the boot: prompt to boot with minimal hardware detection.

[deathmas]

It seems to be a kernel error I tried booting with debian with kernel 2.2.9 and it booted fine but it refuses to boot with kernel 2.4.22 I have even tried to boot it from a cd and it will not boot just kernel NULL dereference at address