There seems to be a bug on SquashFS affecting SMP/HyperThreaded systems. If you see SquashFS-related errors when booting or running the Live CD, you can either disable SMP/HT on your BIOS while running the Live CD or disable them in the kernel, passing the following command at the CD bootloader prompt:
/isolinux/kernel initrd=initrd init=/linuxrc ramdisk_size=4096 root=/dev/ram0 video=vesafb:off ide=nodma Boot=LiveCD
Dual core AM2 AMD64 systems are also known to be defective, and can be booted fine after supplying the following command instead:
/isolinux/kernel initrd=initrd init=/linuxrc ramdisk_size=4096 root=/dev/ram0 video=vesafb:off noapic nolapic nosmp apic=off Boot=LiveCD
This problem does not affect the installed system, which works with SMP/HT/AM2 fine.
If you're getting "Lost interrupt" errors when booting the ISO with QEmu, try disabling the KQEmu kernel module, with rmmod kqemu. (This is probably a bug in KQEmu.)
If you get an error message like this:
VFS Cannot open root device "sda1"then it's possible that VMware is configured to emulate a "LSI Logic" SCSI adapter. To fix that, just modify your virtual machine so that it emulates the "BusLogic" SCSI adapter or an IDE drive and the problem will go away.
Also, X11 detection is known not to work with VMware. You can still launch X11 using the default VESA configuration, but you need to skip X11 detection by pressing Esc when you see the "X11 detection" message during boot.
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