I am trying to get knoppix to work on my laptop (no cd rom drive). I have follwed the instructions at: http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/HdBasedHowTo

Copied all the files (vmlinuz, miniboot.img and the contents of the knoppix directory to C:\knoppix), Download loadlin, copied it to "c:\knoppix\loadlin, writen a batch file menu system which when linux is selected runs the following command

cd knoppix\loadlin
loadlin.exe vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 lang=en ro

it however starts to boot and load the kernal but stops with the following statments:

vfs: Mounted root (vfat filesystem) readonly.
freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed
Warning: unable to open an intial console.
kernel panic: no init found. try passing init= option to kernel

Could sombody help, my only exeperiance of linux up to now has been graphicial mandrake, so i have no idea whats up with it ....