Yoper kernel panic, me panic

[w00t]

I installed yoper and tried to boot it. and it says something like this:

Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown block(0,0)

I've reinstalled it with grub and lilo, and tried changing the root on the config file in the boot loader, but nothing seems to work. My hard drive is on a controller card in a pci slot thus making it hde to all linux systems I've used and Yoper is on the fourth primary partition (hde4). I even tried letting another distro's installer auto-configure the bootloader, but that still gave the same message.

I've seen and heard of other yoper systems and it looks like a great distro, but I just can't get it to work. help.

[lakerdonald]

what type of filesystem is on the yoper partition?

[w00t]

reiserfs

Other specs just in case:
currently booting with the latest stable GNU GRUB (not sure of the number) from a floppy\
Yoper 2.1
AMD Athlon XP 2600+
200 GB western digital HD
512 MB RAM
ABIT uGuru Motherboard
nForce 2 chipset

[lakerdonald]

ah i see. well i do know a couple of other people who are having trouble with Yoper and ReiserFs. Are you using reiser4, by any chance?

[w00t]

no, it was normal reiserfs, but I'll try it with ext3 right now.

[lakerdonald]

ok
let me know how that works for you

[w00t]

same error message, but this time it says (33.4) instead or (0,0) ???

[Borgmeister]

I had a problem like this, try a new cd, you'd be surprised how many times naff cdr's are to blame. This worked for me.