Description of problem: Configuring a MSI 630 laptop, with Mobile AMD Sempron 3000+ 512 Mo ram video SIS M760 wifi 802.11G MiniPci SIS 900 based PCI fast ethernet modem Agere Systems AC'97 dvd writer -------- hang up with VFS: cannot open root device "NULL" or unknown block(8,3) Please append a correct "root=" boot option -------- then imposible to see because of the fast scrolling up of the screen ---------------- the followings tries are useless linux acpi=off nofb linux pci=off linux noapic nolapic linux nofb linux apm=off linux ide=nodma linux mediacheck linux garbage ------------------ Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: This laptop can be configured with Ubuntu and 'linux vga=771'
[This comment added as part of a mass-update to all open FC4 kernel bugs] FC4 has now transitioned to the Fedora legacy project, which will continue to release security related updates for the kernel. As this bug is not security related, it is unlikely to be fixed in an update for FC4, and has been migrated to FC5. Please retest with Fedora Core 5. Thank you.
A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. In the last few updates, some users upgrading from FC4->FC5 have reported that installing a kernel update has left their systems unbootable. If you have been affected by this problem please check you only have one version of device-mapper & lvm2 installed. See bug 207474 for further details. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. If this bug has been fixed, but you are now experiencing a different problem, please file a separate bug for the new problem. Thank you.
(this is a mass-close to kernel bugs in NEEDINFO state) As indicated previously there has been no update on the progress of this bug therefore I am closing it as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Please re-open if the issue still occurs for you and I will try to assist in its resolution. Thank you for taking the time to report the initial bug. If you believe that this bug was closed in error, please feel free to reopen this bug.