Not only did linux fail to boot, but it also managed to switch off my secondary IDE channel too!

Wow, nice going linux, now I understand why you are so popular with people that require stable and reliable systems.

I'm going to celebrate this happiest of occasions with simply giving up on you forever. You will never again break my laptop (first it was Suse that broke a large portion of my paimary disc which I have yet to be able to recover and now Knoppix decides to hang every time I boot from the CD.

And I've apparently just wasted £35 on a ****ing linux book.

*******!

*screams*
*gnashing of teeth*

*no beer left...cries*