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.