On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 15:31, Serge Pl�ss wrote: > Hi there > > Just tried to install 9.0 Beta 2 a couple of times without success. > > The mobo is an Abit KT7A (With the highpoint raid controller). For this > test no Harddrives attached to the raid controller. > One IBM 80Gb Harddrive attached to the primary IDE controller. One > Panasonic DVD and one Lite-On CD Recorder attached to the secondary IDE > controller. > > Chose the Expert install and went successfully through the whole install > with one reiserfs partition for / and a swap partition. > > After successful install upon booting I get the following error: > > Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent
This is normal for that chipset. (I get the same thing on my K7D with no problems.) > Kernel Panic: Unable to mount root fs on 03:04 I get this if the booting kernel does not recognize the file system. Personally I believe that any file system used for / should be compiled into the kernel and not left for initrd and the modules. (Because it does not always work and you get messes like this.) > I get the same message if I try fail-safe mode. > > Installing 8.2 on the same partitions with all the same configuration works > just fine. > Also tried Suse 8.0 and it installed fine on those same partitions. > > Serge > >
