Try #1:  Install Beta 4 using custom partitioning and custom package selection.
 All goes well until completion of disk 1.  Then the installation program
installs the boot loader and reboots.  Note that in addition to not finishing
installing packages on disks 2-5, I haven't yet set a root password or created
an account!  The Grub boot menu comes up just fine, but when I select SuSE, I
drop into text mode get a segmentation violation or fault, and the kernel panics.

Try #2:  OK, maybe it didn't like custom package selection.  So, repeat the
above, but don't customize packages (i.e., just select KDE installation).  Same
result.

I'm not brave enough to let SuSE choose the installation for me, as this will
wipe out some of my other partitions.  Here's the current layout I'm selecting:

hda1  Windows XP (NTFS)           set to mount at /WinXP
hda5  SuSE Partition (Reiser)     set to mount at /
hda6  Ubuntu (Reiser)             set to mount at /Ubuntu

hdb1  swap
hdb5  Data Partition (Fat32)      set to mount at /Data

sda1  Removable USB Drive (NTFS)  set to mount at /NetDisk

I've specified that users can mount /WinXP, /Data, and /NetDisk.  Also, I've
specified that /WinXP and /NetDisk mount read only.

I did notice from the verbose text during boot that mounting of /WinXP failed. 
I'm not even sure my disk layout has anything to do with the problem, but it's
really the only thing I customized during install.

Here's the output from boot.log:

Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.13-3-default
Loaded 24218 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.6.13-3-default.
Symbols match kernel version 2.6.13.
No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled.

klogd 1.4.1, log source = ksyslog started.
<5>Linux version 2.6.13-3-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.0.2 20050826
(prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 Mon Aug 29 19:48:23 UTC 2005
<6>BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
<4> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
<4> BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001feb0000 (usable)
<4> BIOS-e820: 000000001feb0000 - 000000001fec0000 (ACPI data)
<4> BIOS-e820: 000000001fec0000 - 000000011ff00000 (ACPI NVS)
<5>0MB HIGHMEM available.
<5>510MB LOWMEM available.
<6>found SMP MP-table at 000ff780
<7>On node 0 totalpages: 130736
<7>  DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
<7>  Normal zone: 126640 pages, LIFO batch:31
<7>  HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
<6>DMI 2.3 present.
<7>ACPI: RSDP (v000 ACPIAM                                ) @ 0x000f6450
<7>ACPI: RSDT (v001 GATEWA D845GVSR 0x20040818 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x1feb0000
<7>ACPI: FADT (v002 GATEWA OEMFACP  0x20040818 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x1feb0200
<7>ACPI: MADT (v001 GATEWA OEMAPIC  0x20040818 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x1feb0300
<7>ACPI: ASF! (v016 LEGEND I865PASF 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x1feb4220
<7>ACPI: DSDT (v001 GATEWA SR84510A 0x0000010a MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000
<6>ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408
<7>ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
<6>ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
<4>Processor #0 15:3 APIC version 20
<6>ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x81] disabled)
<6>ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
<6>ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
<6>ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
<4>IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
<6>ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
<6>ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
<7>ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
<7>ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
<7>ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
<4>Enabling APIC mode:  Flat.  Using 1 I/O APICs
<6>Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
<4>Allocating PCI resources starting at 10000000 (gap: 10000000:00400000)
<4>Built 1 zonelists
<5>Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda5 vga=0x31a selinux=0    resume=/dev/hdb1 
splash=silent
<6>bootsplash: silent mode.
<7>mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
<7>mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
<6>Initializing CPU#0
<4>PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
<4>Detected 2667.356 MHz processor.
<6>Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
<4>Console: colour dummy device 80x25
<4>Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
<4>Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
<6>Memory: 512744k/522944k available (2017k kernel code, 9576k reserved, 687k
data, 204k init, 0k highmem)
<4>Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
<4>Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5338.99 BogoMIPS (lpj=10677981)
<6>Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
<6>SELinux:  Disabled at boot.
<4>Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
<7>CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
0000441d 00000000 00000000
<7>CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
0000441d 00000000 00000000
<4>monitor/mwait feature present.
<4>using mwait in idle threads.
<6>CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
<6>CPU: L2 cache: 256K
<7>CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080 0000441d
00000000 00000000
<6>Intel machine check architecture supported.
<6>Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
<6>CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
<6>CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
<6>mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
<4>CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.66GHz stepping 04
<6>Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
<6>Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
<6>Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
<6>checking if image is initramfs... it is
<6>Freeing initrd memory: 1731k freed
<6>ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd... not found!
<4> not found!
<4>ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
<6>..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1
<6>NET: Registered protocol family 16
<6>ACPI: bus type pci registered
<6>PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0031, last bus=1
<6>PCI: Using configuration type 1
<6>ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050408
<6>ACPI: Interpreter enabled
<6>ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
<6>ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
<4>PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
<6>ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] segment is 0
<4>EHCI early BIOS handoff failed (BIOS bug ?)
<6>PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
<7>Boot video device is 0000:01:02.0
<6>PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
<7>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
<7>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P0P1._PRT]
<6>ACPI: Power Resource [URP1] (off)
<6>ACPI: Power Resource [FDDP] (off)
<6>ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15)
<6>Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
<6>pnp: PnP ACPI init
<6>pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices
<6>PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
<6>PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq".  If it helps, post a report
<3>PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:02.0
<6>PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
<6>  IO window: d000-dfff
<6>  MEM window: fc900000-fe9fffff
<6>  PREFETCH window: d4800000-e47fffff
<7>PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
<4>TC classifier action (bugs to netdev@vger.kernel.org cc hadi@cyberus.ca)
<6>pnp: 00:09: ioport range 0x400-0x47f could not be reserved
<6>pnp: 00:09: ioport range 0x680-0x6ff has been reserved
<6>pnp: 00:09: ioport range 0x480-0x4bf has been reserved
<6>apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
<5>apm: overridden by ACPI.
<6>audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
<4>audit(1125861018.820:1): initialized
<4>Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
<5>VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
<4>Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
<6>Initializing Cryptographic API
<6>vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd8000000, mapped to 0xe0880000, using 10240k, total
131072k
<6>vesafb: mode is 1280x1024x16, linelength=2560, pages=1
<6>vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:e100
<6>vesafb: scrolling: redraw
<6>vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
<6>bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6> silentjpeg size 112693
bytes,<6>...found (1280x1024, 17839 bytes, v3).
<4>Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 158x59
<6>fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
<6>isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
<6>isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
<6>Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
<6>PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
<6>serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
<6>serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
<6>Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
<4>ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
<4>ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
<6>io scheduler noop registered
<6>io scheduler anticipatory registered
<6>io scheduler deadline registered
<6>io scheduler cfq registered
<6>FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
<4>RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 64000K size 1024 blocksize
<6>loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
<6>mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
<6>input: PC Speaker
<6>md: md driver 0.90.2 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
<6>md: bitmap version 3.38
<6>NET: Registered protocol family 2
<4>IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
<4>TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
<4>TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
<6>TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
<6>TCP reno registered
<6>NET: Registered protocol family 1
<4>Using IPI Shortcut mode
<4>ACPI wakeup devices: 
<4>P0P1 UAR1 USB0 USB1 USB2 USB3 AC97 SLPB 
<6>ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
<6>Freeing unused kernel memory: 204k freed
<6>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
<6>ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
<6>ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
<4>PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
<6>ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
<6>ICH4: chipset revision 2
<6>ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
<6>    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
<6>    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
<7>Probing IDE interface ide0...
<4>hda: WDC WD600BB-22JHA0, ATA DISK drive
<4>hdb: WDC WD1600JB-22GVA0, ATA DISK drive
<4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
<6>hda: max request size: 128KiB
<6>hda: 117231408 sectors (60022 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
<6>hda: cache flushes supported
<6> hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 >
<6>hdb: max request size: 1024KiB
<6>hdb: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(100)
<6>hdb: cache flushes supported
<6> hdb: hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 >
<7>Probing IDE interface ide1...
<3>udev[876]: run_program: exec of program '/sbin/udev.mount.sh' failed
<4>hdc: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4481B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
<3>udev[877]: run_program: exec of program '/sbin/udev.mount.sh' failed
<3>udev[878]: run_program: exec of program '/sbin/udev.mount.sh' failed
<3>udev[879]: run_program: exec of program '/sbin/udev.mount.sh' failed
<3>udev[880]: run_program: exec of program '/sbin/udev.mount.sh' failed
<3>udev[881]: run_program: exec of program '/sbin/udev.mount.sh' failed
<4>hdd: DVDRW IDE 16X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
<4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
<3>udev[884]: run_program: exec of program '/sbin/udev.mount.sh' failed
<6>ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1])
<6>ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states)
<6>hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
<6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
<6>hdd: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
<4>Attempting manual resume
<3>swsusp: Suspend partition has wrong signature?
<5>ReiserFS: hda5: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
<5>ReiserFS: hda5: using ordered data mode
<5>ReiserFS: hda5: journal params: device hda5, size 8192, journal first block
18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
<5>ReiserFS: hda5: checking transaction log (hda5)
<5>ReiserFS: hda5: Using r5 hash to sort names
<6>bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
<6>md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
<6>md: autorun ...
<6>md: ... autorun DONE.
<6>Adding 1044184k swap on /dev/hdb1.  Priority:-1 extents:1
<6>device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
<6>NTFS driver 2.1.23 [Flags: R/W MODULE].
<5>SCSI subsystem initialized
<5>ReiserFS: hda6: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
<5>ReiserFS: hda6: using ordered data mode
<5>ReiserFS: hda6: journal params: device hda6, size 8192, journal first block
18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
<5>ReiserFS: hda6: checking transaction log (hda6)
<5>ReiserFS: hda6: Using r5 hash to sort names
<6>NTFS volume version 3.1.
Kernel logging (ksyslog) stopped.
Kernel log daemon terminating.

Boot logging started on /dev/tty1(/dev/console) at Sun Sep  4 19:10:26 2005

Mounting shared memory FS on /dev/shmdone
Configuring serial ports...
/dev/ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Configured serial ports
doneActivating swap-devices in /etc/fstab...
doneActivating device mapper...
Creating /dev/mapper/control character device with major:10 minor:63.
done
Checking file systems...
fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0x306 of format 3.6 with standard journal
Blocks (total/free): 4777312/3057405 by 4096 bytes
Filesystem is clean
Replaying journal..
Reiserfs journal '/dev/hda6' in blocks [18..8211]: 0 transactions replayed
Checking internal tree..finished
doneSetting up kernel module dependencies (if required)done
Mounting local file systems...
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
/dev/hdb5 on /Data type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
/dev/hda6 on /Ubuntu type reiserfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,acl)
/dev/hda1 on /WinXP type ntfs (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
failedCreating /var/log/boot.msg
<notice>startproc: execve (/sbin/udevd) [ /sbin/udevd --daemon --stop-exec-queue
], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=reiserfs TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh
ROOTFS_FSCK=0 UDEVD_EVENT_TIMEOUT=1 LC_ALL=POSIX UDEVD_EXPECTED_SEQNUM=795
INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=158
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/lib/klibc/bin vga=0x31a DO_CONFIRM=
RUNLEVEL=S PWD=/
SPLASHCFG=/etc/bootsplash/themes/SuSE/config/bootsplash-1280x1024.cfg
ROOTFS_REALDEV=/lib/klibc//dev/hda5 PREVLEVEL=N LINES=59 HOME=/ SHLVL=2
splash=silent SPLASH=yes ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/hda5 _=/sbin/startproc
DAEMON=/sbin/udevd ]
<notice>killproc: kill(1735,29)
doneStarting udevd done
Setting up hostname 'linux'done
Setting up loopback interface     lo        
    lo        IP address: 127.0.0.1/8   
done
Loading required kernel modules
done/etc/init.d/boot.coldplug: line 18: /etc/sysconfig/hotplug: No such file or
directory
Coldplug
Coldplug: cleaning /events hwup: Loading module 'lp'  for device 'printer'
 processing eventsdone
Setting up the CMOS clock