I have an AMD Athlon XP 2100+ with 256 megs of RAM and a Radeon 7000.

Booting with knoppix shows the graphic screen where it loads the kernel but then the screen goes blank.

Using vga=normal fixes it to some extent. Now it reacher "Uncompressing kernel...Done." And when it tries to boot the kernel, nothing happens. No processor activity, no CD spinning. failsafe and all other cheats simply set me back to when the screen would go blank. This CD ran quite well on two other machines (includinga laptop), so I don't get what could be causing the problem, since apparently i already got through with the radeon problem.

How can I exactly make the kernel boot up properly then?