Now this is what I like to see: You've explained what your error is, not "uh well it was kinda like this...."- that get's us nowhere. Secondly you have posted what you've already tried to resolve the problem. I can see that you've been reading. Try booting with this cheat code (and maybe others)

boot: knoppix nosmp

If that doesn't work do this:

boot: knoppix 2

Then do this:

dmesg | more

You'll be looking at the kernels boot messages- you mayor may not find something of interest there.