Mandriva 2005 limited edition problems

[seanl]

I partitioned my HDD and installed Mandriva

New Compaq laptop with AMD 64 turion chip

everything moves along fine on boot-up screen until I
get this: (there's more stuff that preceeds this...but I copied the following lines where apparently things begin to run amok.
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Creating root device
Mounting root filesystem with flags noatime
mount : error 6 mounting ext3 flags noatime
well, retrying without the option flags
mount: error 6 mounting ext3
well, retrying read-only without any flag
mount : error 6 mounting ext3
pivotrootivot_root(sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
unmount /initrd/sys failed: 2
unmount /initrd/proc failed: 2
Initrd finished
Freeing unused kernal memory: 220k freed
Kernal panic - not syncing: No init found.
Try passing init=option to kernal

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Then the system just locks up.


Any ideas? Yes, I'm a n00b

[pcman]

It seems your OS is seriously damaged. Kernel panic that means. Try to reinstall Mandriva and prefer reiser fs than ext3 for the root filesystem.

[seanl]

thanks for the tip... I do not remember seeing reiser fs for the file system pull down menu....but I'll check again.