Quote Originally Posted by turbines
I installed Knoppix to my hard drive along with Win XP. I installed LILO to the MBR and it seems to boot to either properly. When Linux completes the boot I get a Debian login screen asking for my user name and password. I enter "root" (without quotes) for the user name and then when I put the root password in I get a login failure message. When I try to login as "koppix" and use the user password the screen blinks for a moment and returns to the login window. What am I missingt?
In the menu option at the login screen choose KDE instead of default that is preselected for the session type. BTW you should not be logging in as root if you need root access while running graphically then open a console window (the monitor with a shell on it in the taskbar) and use the su command then enter the root password and you can now do whatever you needed to do as root.