Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 168336
Bad: kernel panics (unable to mount root) while booting the DVD
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:13 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050909 Fedora/1.0.6-1.2.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: The kernel panics as soon as I press enter to boot at the installer's prompt. First time it complained of a bad /dev/hda2 partition (can't recall the exact message). Since that drive had been used for debian before, I wiped the whole drive, restarted (rebooted w/ the FC4-x86_64 dvd) with a blank /dev/hda and then it panicked with this message: VFS: Cannot open rrot device "<NULL>" or unknown-block (3,2) Kernel panic: not syncing VFS Unable to mount root fs on unknown fs on unknown-block (3,2) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Insert DVD of FC4-X86_64 2.At the prompt, just press ENTER 3.bang Actual Results: Display of the call trace, freeze. Expected Results: The kernel should have booted and the installer should have started. Additional info:
I forgot to mention... Before I wiped the disk, when it complained about /dev/hda2 being bad (so sorry I can't recall the exact message), I thought that weird, considering there were no /dev/hda2 on the system. It crashed the same way as it did when I wiped the whole disk.
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. The workaround mentioned in the original report would enable you to continue the installation *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 159026 ***