[suse-laptop] help with "compressed image" needed urgently!

Hello guys! I have a biiig problem! I use a dual boot machine, win2k and linux, and from the linux part I have the standard suse stuff, i.e. 2.2.18 and 2.4.0 bootable. Now, with 2.4.0 everything is ok, BUT 2.2.18 gives me the following: Somewhere during bootup, there is the line: Found compressed image (or something like that) Uncompressing........................ And then I get tons of dots, and dots, and dots, ... and nothing happens. Pressing Ctrl + Alt + Del results in or somewhat similar. Plus, the other problem I have: I always get the message "couldn't fsck because root is not read-only". I didn't change anything, so what could this be? Can anybody help me, please? Thanks in advance! markus