[clue-tech] Installation Problems

[mmosbauer at comcast.net]

I have built an AMD64 3000+ system and now trying to install FC3_64.  I have a western digital 160GB hard drive, and 512Mb of memory.  When I try the install I get the following output:
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKC] (IRQs *22)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] (IRQs *23)
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try “pci=routeirq”.  If it helps, post a report
TC classifier action (bugs to netdev at oss.sgi.com cc had at cyberus.ca)
agpart: Detected AGP bridge 0
agpart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 379M
agpart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe8000000
PCI-DMA: Disabling IOMMU.
IA32 emulation $ld: sys_ia32.c,v 1.32 2002/03/24 13:02:28 ak Exp $
audit: initializing netlink socket (diabled)
audit(1115390481.933:0): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf0000000, mapped to 0xffffc20000100000, using 10240k, t
otal 65536k
vesafb: mode is 1280x1024x16, linelength=2560, pages=24
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
bootsplash: scanning last 2MB of initrd for signature
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture..<6>..no good signature found
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Console: switching to color frame buffer device 160x64
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
Linux agpart interfrace v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60, 0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 drive $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
ttyS0 at I/0 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 128000K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: PC Speaker
md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
NET: Registered protocol family 2
ACPI wakeup devices:
PCI0 USB0 USB1 USB2 USB3 USB4 USB5 USB6 USB7 AC97 UAR1
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
md: Autodetecting  RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
input: GenPS/2 Genius Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
RAMDISK: incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 131072000
crc error
VFS: Cannot open root device “<NULL>” or unknown-block(3,3)
Please append a correct “root=” boot option
Kernel panic – not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,3)

I tried to go back and just install the 32bit version of FC3.  I have done this on my laptop with no problems.  I get the same results.  I have loaded up Knoppix from CD and that works just fine.  I'm at a loss here on what to try.  At one time I did get it to load finally by adding the argument "linux acpi=off" and the installation seemed to work.  Once I rebooted I was back to the same error again.  Does anyone have any idea what to try?

Michael