Kernel Panic on Acer laptop

[slefevre]

I just got hold of an Acer Aspire and I wanted to do some stress testing.

When I try to boot to the default, I get a kernel panic, referencing init. I tried to boot with noinitrd, and I got a kernel panic NFS and VFS errors.

This is an intel SU2700 on an Acer Aspire 5810TZ.

here's from vanilla boot:
pivot_root: No such file or directory
/sbin/init: 432: Cannot open dev/console: No such file
Kernl Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

And here's from noinitrd
Root_NFS: No NFS server available, giving up.
VFS: Unable to mount root FS via NFS, trying floppy
VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER

loading memtest works okay.

[stresslinux]

please tell me which version of stresslinux did you try and which media (usb or cd)

[slefevre]

[quote='stresslinux' pid='147' dateline='1274478740']
please tell me which version of stresslinux did you try and which media (usb or cd)
[/quote]
Sorry about that! 0.3.1 on a CD

What's the base distro for that? Am I correct in thinking that it would more be an issue with the base?

[stresslinux]

please download the newer build 0.5.111 which is the latest version, your error looks like a driver problem which is likely be fixed in the newer version.