cannot mount disk after install

I am installing JDS2 onto my laptop (HP Pavilion ze4125). I downloaded the iso's from the Sun internal website and burned the CDs. The installation goes fine but when it reboots after the 3rd CD, it just hangs. When I boot in the mode that shows the console output, I can see that it is trying to find a reiser fs on /dev/hda and not being able to mount the disk.

The only problem I had when installing was the installer would hang while installing evolution and then power off the laptop. I found I could get past this by moving the mouse around and eventually it went on to complete the installation. I installed freshly using this trick in case I had corrupted something, but I still get the reiser-fs problem.

Any suggestions?

[808 byte] By [jdavis] at [2007-11-25 22:44:17]