Bug 425787

Summary:	System fails to find /dev/root during first boot after install
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	David Rector <drector>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	8
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Description David Rector 2007-12-15 17:58:51 UTC

Description of problem:
Hello Everyone,

I am helping a friend to install Fedora 8 on his laptop.

It is a HP pavilion dv9000 with Vista. After partitioning the disk with
qtparted, we installed FC8 x86_64 with no glitches.

On the first boot, we never get any joy because the system always gives us
/dev/root not found and stops with a kernel panic.

I have searched bugzilla and Fedora Forum for a solution, but I think this is
still a serious bug. Many people had this problem when FreeBSD was installed on
their drive, or had a RAID drive. But in this case, there are only four
partitions, two for Vista, one for linux root and one for linux swap.

I have tried turning off apic and apm in grub, but no joy.
I have tried booting the rescue disk and reinstalling GRUB, still no joy.
I have tried booting the rescue disk, doing a yum update, and rerunning mkinitrd
as suggested in other bug reports, still doesn't work.
Changing root=/dev/sda3 from LABEL=/ did not work either.

I suspect there is something in the sata hard drive driver, however, I am
curious why the system boots fine using the install disk?

Thanks in advance.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 8

How reproducible:
Every Time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora 8 from install 8
2. reboot
3. system hangs after nash with /dev/root not found among other things.
  For example, it also claims it can't resume because it could not find the swap
disk, but I assume this is a related problem to a bigger issue because when I
add noresume to the boot parameters, this message no longer appears, but
/dev/root is still not found
  
Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 Chuck Ebbert 2007-12-18 22:03:04 UTC

Please remove the options

  rhgb quiet

from the kernel command line and replace them with

  vga=1

Then see if there are any more error messages.

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 09:00:35 UTC

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Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining
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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 05:30:52 UTC

Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
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Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.