can only boot from floppy

[Rootman]

I have a laptop that only wants to boot off the floppy and i cant get into the BIOS to change it...

the harddrive in this thing is dead...

is there any way of booting off a floppy and loading the knoppix kernel on the cdrom?

You can make a bootable floppy by using the images on most distros, the Knoppix CD has instructions.

Another cooler way is to use http://bootcd.narod.ru/index_e.htm it's called Bootable CD Loader, it chains the boot to WHATEVER bootable CDROM is in the drive, Knoppix, Morphix, Windows PE (yuk!) etc. Comes in real handy when the BIOS does not support CDROM boot.