From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) 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:
can you try to use ide=nodma while booting up the setup? And see if something changes?
Read: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=62400 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 159026 ***