Hello, I just found out about knoppix and i am trying to give it a whirl...

i can boot the disc to where i can see the prompt "boot:" but when i try to go beyond that, by either typing knoppix / failsafe , and i have tried just hitting enter.... it sends me through some more of the boot process and finds my RAM etc.

then when i get to "creating directories and symlinks on ramdisk...."

i get..

"SCSI : aborting command due to timeout : pid 83, scsi0, channel 0, id 0 lun 0 read (10) 00 00 05 69 d8 00 00 08 00
hdd: timeout waiting for DMA"

etc etc.....

"Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000000018""

from here it just hangs, when i run in failsafe it throws a whole list of stuff at me after it hangs for a minute or 2.

any clues as to what my issue may be?

i am not much for *ix OS's , but i think it may be looking for a scsi disK? i do not have scsi components in my machine tho.... is there some way to maybe select IDE instead of scsi?



thanks

Droopy