Bug 165175

Summary:	Couldn't find valid ramdisk image starting at 0
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Megan Quattrocchi <megan>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	4	CC:	gerwinkrist, wtogami
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Description Megan Quattrocchi 2005-08-04 22:00:27 UTC

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Description of problem:
I'm trying to install fc4 on a new system and it dies with the following error.
Ramdisk: Couldn't find valid randisk image starting at 0.

This is an Intel D865GLC mainboard with P4, 512M DDR.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start install.
2.
3.
  

Actual Results:  About a page of messages then it dies at...
Ramdisk: Couldn't find valid randisk image starting at 0.
VFS: Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown-block (8,3)
Kernal panic not syncing
VFS:Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,3)



Additional info:

Comment 1 Gerwin Krist 2005-08-07 19:01:29 UTC

can you try to use ide=nodma while booting up the setup? And see if something
changes?

Comment 2 Gerwin Krist 2005-08-07 19:09:12 UTC

Read: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=62400

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 159026 ***