GRUB ignoring cheatcodes?

[brentmid]

I am attempting to run knoppix on a toshiba tablet pc. i have windows xp installed and I'm using GRUB to run Knoppix from the hard drive since it won't boot from the PCMCIA-CD drive. I got it to work by putting the bootfloppy files onto the partition where knoppix lives.

When Knoppix boots, it gets a little way through - recognizes the processor - then says:

PCMCIA found, starting cardmgr
cardmgr[391]: starting, version is 3.2.2
blah, blah
modprobe: Can't locate module memory_cs
blah, blah

Then it hangs.

So I attempted to use the nopcmcia cheatcode, but it doesn't seem to stop the "PCMCIA found, starting cardmgr" stuff. It hangs every time.

Here is my GRUB entry - am I doing something wrong? Why does cardmgr still attempt to run?

root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz nopcmcia
initrd /miniroot.gz

Note - I've also tried using the failsafe and expert cheatcodes, but they don't seem to do anything different either. Am I not formatting the cheatcodes correctly for grub?

[L2Cache]

I use lilo, as in this post; and it works fine:
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1075#4399

[brentmid]

I think I figured this out.

Seems that whatever version of GRUB I am using is ignoring the first argument / parameter / cheatcode, no matter what it is.

So the following works just fine:

root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz foobar nopcmcia
initrd /miniroot.gz

weird, eh?