There is no need to reinstall unless you bork the install so badly there is no other way to fix it. I realize that wimpdoze has taught many people this very bad habit of reinstalling. Quit that! heh heh

You need to have LILO (or GRUB) installed to your Knoppix hard drive. Then just edit your bootmanager so that it points to /dev/hdd./ LILO (if installed correctly) will take over the boot process from there.

LILO if properly installed should have the following included in /etc/lilo.conf:

boot=/dev/hdd
root=/dev/hdd

The easiest way to do it would be to boot the Knoppix hard drive, edit lilo then /sbin/lilo.

Then install the hard drive to /dev/hdd and it should work. gluck