Hi,

I just downloaded v3.3-2-16 from two different sources, verified MD5 and burned two CDs. Both cause the same problem.

When I try to boot from these CDs, I get a blue screen with a boot: prompt at the top. There are no graphics, just plain white text. So, I tried just pressing enter, and later also tried booting with "knoppix testcd". Regardless, the boot process begins, and goes into a black screen with a graphic of a tiny penguin at the top of the screen. Then it says:

Accessing KNOPPIX CDROM at /dev/scd0
Setting paths I/O Error: dev 0b:00 ....
cloop: read error at ...
cloop: error -3 uncompressing block

Anyhow, the boot process continues regardless of these errors, it continues to get similar errors on each stage, and eventually, it dies on a kernel panic.

I have tried booting these same CDs on another machine, and it works fine: I get a nice graphical bootup screen, and then it boots into a nice desktop.

What could be the problem? BTW, I am not really able to switch hardware between machines at this moment.

The machine having problems is a P4based Celeron 1.7Ghz, with an OEM CD-ROM F563E, and 512 MB RAM. Also, I have been able to create bootcds of TOMSRTBT and booted them without any problems on this machine.

Thanks,

Hobbieman