With livecd-20030114 i get a kernel oops when i work on reiserfs disks, the oops always happens in the reiserfs code. I tried different ram, scsi cards, etc and finally used a 1.4 rc1 cd and it worked fine.
note: i used this cd elsewhere with no problems so it might be the scsi causing it, i have an adaptec 2940u2w and the driver used is AIC7xxx. I tried several cards and the same thing happened. The hardware is mostly generic except for the scsi card.
were all the scsi cards you tried aic7x? i aready have the newest aic7xxx drivers in local version.
please try livecd-experimental-rc4-04-10-03.iso
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i haven't had this trouble on the new livecd's so i guess it went away i forgot about this bug :D
thanks