Bug 447171

Summary: F9 doesn't boot off a DVD
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: _MD_ <mdproductions>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 9CC: nhorman
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OS: Linux   
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Description _MD_ 2008-05-18 14:27:42 UTC 
I simply can not do a fresh install of fedora 9. I tried on 5 different
machines, with completely different configurations (from ide drives to sata,
from onboard video to nvidia 9800, from 256mb of ram to 4gb).
What happens is that when I boot from cd, it gives me the unknown keyboard in
config, and then fedora 9 could not find kernel image: linux
So I tried booting manually using vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img which got me to the
next error: fedora 9 kernel panic vfs unable to mount root fs on unknown.
And for the past three days, I simply can not bypass this error message (tried
with root=LABEL=/ option as well as ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 - same
thing). What
was done so different to f9 that f8 didn't have?
I mean on the same 5 machines, I'm able to boot off dvd of fedora release 8.
Weird, eh? I tried downloading another image, same thing, tried burning it at
6x, nada. Please let me know if it's a common bug with a f9 x64 dvd? or i'm
doing something wrong?
f8 was so easy and flawless to install...
Comment 1 _MD_ 2008-05-18 14:27:42 UTC 
Created attachment 305851 [details]
kernel panic screenshot
Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-06-10 00:58:00 UTC 
This message is a reminder that Fedora 9 is nearing its end of life.
Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining
and issuing updates for Fedora 9.  It is Fedora's policy to close all
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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 15:47:04 UTC 
Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 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no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 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 
Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.