I am trying to run Knoppix 3.2 on a Sony Vaio PCG-F290 (PIII 350 + 192MB of RAM). This laptop has some hardware problems with APM and ACPI - even an installation of Windows 98 is a pain - anything else after that does not work. The issue is with APM/ACPI on the motherboard.

When I boot knoppix from CD I make sure to set:

knoppix lang=en noapm no apic

As soon as I get loading vmlinux the laptop shuts itself down (same problem when trying to install Win2K/XP/Linux Mandrake during setup).

Any ideas if i can get knoppix running on this? I did manage to get Win98 running and Win95.