I cannot get Knoppix v3.3 09-02-2004 to work on my machine although v3.1 will work.

I have a SCSI card that requires the sym53c8xx driver and I have modules for 2.4.20 and 2.4.24 kernels. The CD boots in expert mode and I can load either of the above modules after which I get the usual SCSI stuff on screen which shows that the hard drives, tape drive and, most importantly, the CD-Rom have all been found.

The CD-Rom drive is then accessed (light comes on) and I am dumped to the minimalistic shell with a Knoppix filesystem not found message. Why should the filesystem not be found even though the CD-Rom can be accessed?

At this point 'lsmod' shows the sysm53c8xx.o module as loaded but no other modules are listed. Should there be others showing at this point?

The shell message says 'Additional builtin commands' but these commands appear to be the only commands available. Additional to what?

Is there anything I can do from this shell to get the system going?

The same CD will run on another SCSI machine, using one of the modules provided, although it produces a string of 'modprobe: cannot access depenencies file' messages. So the CD itself appears to be in working order but I want to be able to run it on the machine requiring the sym53c8xx driver.

I've searched all the Knoppix resources I can find, including this forum, without success. If nobody can suggest a working solution then I can't see any other option than to confine Knoppix to the beermat drawer.