thats what I thought too. but I always get an 'unexpected end of file' error when trying to gunzip the initrd file.

i messed around with grub on the command line for a bit, and when I do
Code:
root (hd0,1)
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.24-openmosix-1
boot
I get the VFS error.

but, when I do:
Code:
root (hd0,1)
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.24-openmosix-1
initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd-2.2.24
boot
I now get a RAMDISK: compressed image found at block 0 error instead.

I wonder if it isn't something to do with the fact that this is a laptop, maybe the autodetect stuff works fine from the CD, but when moved to an HD install, it's broken.. so it thinks that I've got something thats a SCSI device, but it's not?

I'm going to try the 3.4 release of Knoppix, and see if that changes things, and if not, then a 3.3 release of Knoppix. maybe it's the clusterKnoppix distro that's a little funky.

At least I'm halfway enjoying this experience.

-sarge