Booting with the code 'knoppix64' does the same thing as before. It just hangs at:

Decompressing Linux... Parsing Elf... done.
Booting the kernel

I had to reboot, & enter 'knoppix64 nolapic' at the boot prompt to resume without hanging. It detects only one core, & causes sluggish CPU behaviour. Runs at 100%, & threading seems compromized.

This is with the new Knoppix 7.0.5 DVD

It's the same behaviour for 6.0.2 all the way up to 7.0.5... but works with 6.0.1 CD (don't remember seeing a DVD release for 6.0.1)

Even in the unstable environment of the booted 7.0.5 DVD, I have to smile , it's awesome, but not stable - I don't want to blow out that core on my CPU. Without lapic, or apic, the sync timing of everything is off, & causes serious hanging, & delays. The graphics is nice though... massive improvement over 6.0.1.