cannot boot: initrd extends beyond end of memory error

[Stephen]

I couldn't boot from the Knoppix cd on my computer. It says:

initrd extends beyond end of memory (0x1eff3a32 > 0x1eff0000)
kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:01

After the knoppix boot screen it freezes with this error. I tried with many boot options and I couldn't get pass this error. I have AMD Duron based system with 512MB Ram. I have two 256MB memory sticks and I get the same error with two or 1 memory sticks, I did this 'cos I assumed boot script didn't recognize my memory properly. Could anyone help me out? I want to boot of the knoppix cd and install knoppix on my system. Did anyone encounter the same/similar error? Is there any other way of installing knoppix on my system???

Sanjay.

Have you tried booting with the cheat code mem=512M you may also want to try knoppix 2 to boot to a terminal and just run the install script from there.