From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7 Description of problem: Attempting to install Fedora Core from hard disk images. System begins boot process after pressing 'Enter' to begin graphical installation, loads vmlinuz and initrd.img and then suffers a kernel panic during the flurry of activity that follows. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): severn-i386-disc1.iso How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Generate installation diskette as indicated above 2.Attempt to boot computer using said diskette 3. Actual Results: Kernel panic, can not mount root fs on 48:05 Expected Results: Begin anaconda installation process without a kernel panic Additional info: First attempt at reporting a bug, hope it makes sense.
Here is the last bit of information shown during the boot process: NET4: Unix Domain Sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 crc error<6>Freeing initrd memory: 528k freed VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 48:05 Please append correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 48:05 I have created several boot floppies via: dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k but they all demonstrate the same problem on two platforms (a P4 and an ancient dual PPro) so I don't believe it is a problem with the media or the hardware. I was unable to find any other reports of a similar problem so I don't believe this is a duplicate report. The md5sums checked OK on the iso images from which the bootdisk.img was pulled.
This works fine here. Please trying writing the floppy on a different machine as the "crc error" says that it almost *has* to be a media or drive problem.