I got past my booting problem by reburning the CD. (even though the old cd booted fine on two other computers, I guess it didn't like the way it was burned the first time)

Yes, I had that same hangup after it detected the powerbutton apci stuff.

Booting another system indicated that the USB detection comes after that.
so..
I did a
knoppix screen=800x600 noddc nousb
and it booted.

the nousb got past the error. the noddc is because knoppix doesn't like my 'tosh' monitor.
Maybe the new USB scanning doesn't like toshiba's USB hardware.


- fixed typo in the word 'knoppix'...