I put the knoppix CD in, and reboot my computer. The boot prompt comes up. It seems everything I choose except "failsafe" causes my screen to go black after a quick kernel load and my computer is hung. Even "testcd" causes this black screen and computer hang.

When I choose "failsafe" the load messages scroll down my screen then the process again hangs my computer. The last two lines are
"enabled ExtINT on CPU#0"
"ESR value before enabling vector: 00000002"

My computer runs winME, winXP, and Suse Linux 6.4 without any problems.

I burned a new knoppix CD at 2x recording speed to ensure no burning errors. Still the exact same result.

I am running the KNOPPIX_V3.3-2003-11-19-EN.iso image.

The documentation did not help much. I also tried booting with as many of the "no" options such as "nousb" as was possible. This also did not work.

Any help would be appreciated. I would be glad to try and debugging or verbose error reporting techniques if there are any available.