Syslinux - Mar 2005 - compact flash, fat, reduced knoppix and syslinux

Hi.
I've recently picked up a 256MB compact flash card and
CF->IDE adapter.
I'm wanting to put a smaller version of knoppix on
here.  I came across miniknoppix here:
http://www.inittab.org and decided to have a play
around with that.
So far I have opened up the ISO image and copied all
the files out.  I have put a boot sector onto the CF
by putting the CF into the IDER adpater then booting
the nachine off a win98 floppy.  I did an 'fdisk /mbr'
to but a boot sector on there and it seemed to go on
without any complaints.
Next, I copied the files I extracted from the ISO to
the CF.  Now the ISO uses isolinux but from what I
understand I need to use syslinux (or can I just you
isolinux?).
I have copied the contents of the /boot/isolinux (from
the ISO) to the root of the CF. I then renamed
'isolinux.cfg' to 'syslinux.cfg'.  I also moved the
contents of the 'knoppix' directory to the root of the
CF.
I have verified access to the CF by booting off a DOS
floppy.  I can see the CF as 'C' drive and am able to
navigate through the directory structure OK and
transfer files around.

I put syslinux on the cf (tried this from UNIX and
windows) and the card appears to boot.
I say 'appears' because I get to the splash screen but
the machine then locks up. I don't get the 'boot:'
prompt at the bottom of the screen like do If I boot a
knoppix CD.  The 'F2' and 'F3' keys don't work and I
can't hit ctrl-alt-del to reboot the machine - I have
to hard reset it.
Just in case this was an issue with the machine I put
the CF into a USB reader and attached it to a Dell
laptop which I then told ot boot off USB.  Exactly the
same thing occurs.  I'm beginning to think I have
somehow set this up wrong.  I saw that there is a
debug version of isolinux but could not find something
similar for syslinux.  Does such a thing exist?
I have attached my syslinux.conf.

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DEFAULT linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us
apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt24.gz nomce quiet
BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
TIMEOUT 300

PROMPT 1
DISPLAY boot.msg
F1 boot.msg
F2 f2
F3 f3
LABEL knoppix
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us
apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt24.gz nomce quiet
BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL memtest
KERNEL memtest
APPEND initrdLABEL knoppix-txt
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us
apm=power-off vga=normal initrd=minirt24.gz nomce
quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL expert
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us
apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt24.gz nomce
BOOT_IMAGE=expert
LABEL fb1280x1024
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us
apm=power-off vga=794 xmodule=fbdev initrd=minirt24.gz
nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL fb1024x768
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us
apm=power-off vga=791 xmodule=fbdev initrd=minirt24.gz
nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL fb800x600
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us
apm=power-off vga=788 xmodule=fbdev initrd=minirt24.gz
nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL failsafe
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us
vga=normal atapicd nosound noapic noacpi acpi=off
noscsi nodma noapm nousb nopcmcia nofirewire noagp
nomce nodhcp xmodule=vesa initrd=minirt24.gz
BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL userdef
KERNEL linux24
APPEND
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Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?  Any
suggestions?

Thanks,
PJ


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