I have been stumbling through a Knoppix 3.8 remaster from a hard drive install. I burned the iso to disk, but it won't boot. I get Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem etc. And when I press any key I get Kernel Panic -not syncing:VFS:Unable to mount fs on unknown-block. To boot the original cd I used Lang=uk nodma acpi=force. Someone suggested noacpi or noapic or noscsi but none worked. If I do testcd it says Could not find kernel image. If I do failsafe it boots from my tohd install instead of from the disk. I have looked on the disk and everything seems to be there. I have tried the disk on another computer that doesn't have knoppix installed and the same happens.

knoppix was not made to install to a hard disk.........
it was made to boot and run from the CD ........

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Thankyou for replying. I know that it is not technically made for installing to the hard drive, although I have had several versions installed to the hard drive primarily for remastering and have had relatively few problems. My problem is not so much with the hard drive install as with creating a final remaster./iso. I go through all the steps and then get that message. In the Knoppix harddrive howto it tells me to change my hda6 partition (where the file will be created) to vfat shortname=mixed, auto. The knoppix file should then be named KNOPPIX, but mine comes out as knoppix. Apparently because of the naming conventions it won't boot. I don't understand however why my knoppix file comes out as knoppix instaed of KNOPPIX. I am hoping that if I solve that problem I will solve the other

found the problem I think. for some reason my knoppix didn't like my FAT 32 partition so I did the remaster on a ext2 partition. Then I got a bad superblock error. It turns out that Knoppix installs reiserfs, which I think the e2fsck which is performed during boot doesn't recognize. To stop Knoppix installing default reiserfs, the user has to start the install for a debian like install, choose ext3 then double back before the install actually starts and start the install with a knoppix style install. it should then install ext3 and be OK for creating a disk.(check /etc/fstab)