As a whole, 8.0 installed without a hitch. It was only after I tried to
reboot that the problems showed up. It has been my experience that the
installer does not install all the options as I want them.
First, the installer installs LILO even though I explicitly chose GRUB.
On several install attempts, the installer never installed GRUB.
Secondly, the partition part of the installer seems to format partitions
as ext2 even though I selected RieserFS. I am wondering if this has
anything to do with my kernel panic problems on startup as mentioned in
the KERNEL PANIC:8.0 thread. Could the bootloader be looking for a
ReiserFS boot partition when the bootloader is actually seeing ext2?
This is my output:
[] loading module /lib/reiserfs.o
VFS: cannot open root device "2105" or 21:05
please append a correct "root=" boot option
kernel panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 21:05
It seems coincidental that I also have a Promise Ultra UDMA 66 card with
2 hard drives (Maxtor - master, Quantum Fireball - slave). Although,
all these problems still occur with only the Maxtor attached. Could the
support for Promise Ultra cards be broken?
Why would the installer do one thing, when I tell it to do another? I
checked the md5sums on the isos and they are correct.
Any help would be appreciated!
David
