I think Knoppix is great. Have been using linux 5 years now.

Sometimes when I boot it on my desktop it loads the ramdisk then detects devices then fails on IRQ and gives a message about stack and not sincing.

Don't know how to save this output.

System is an AMD 1gz on a Gigabyte 71gax, 380 mb ram. Plug and Play is enabled in bios. Don't want to change this if I don't have to.

Have saved configuration and made home directory, but doesn't get to this point of boot. booting Knoppix lang=us seems to be more sucessful.

I particularly would like to know if this is bad for my hardware.

I have no problems with my thinkpad p2 notebook.

David.