From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; X11; Linux x86_64; en) Opera 8.5 Description of problem: When booting with the 2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 kernel on a machine with an MSI K8N SLI Platimum motherboard with two sata disks (a Maxtor 6L250S0 and a Maxtor 7Y250M0) the kernel fails to start with the following error message mkrootdev: label /1 not found mount: error 19 mounting ext3 ERR0 opening /dev/console!!!! :2 error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 0 error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 1 error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 2 switchroot: mount failed :22 Kernel panic -not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Under kernel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4, the system boots fine with the same setup. The motherboard is nvidia based and uses the sata_nv module under the old kernel. This kernel has been reported to fix bug 171219, but I am unable to run it. Attempts to install the kernel from source have also led to the same problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.14-1.1637_FC4smp How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start machine using the kernel 2. 3. Actual Results: See above Expected Results: Kernel should have found sata disk and mounted / file system Additional info: giving the kernel root=/dev/sda3 instead of root=LABEL=/ does not solve the problem, neither does booting with the single processor kernel. Processor is an AMB ATHLON 64 X2 dual core.
*** Bug 174175 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Try the kernel at http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC4 which has some SATA fixes which might fix your problem.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 174378 ***