Description of problem: The boot drive is sda, the boot partition is on sda1, and / is on sda2. But the error indicates that the sda2 partion cannot be opened. The rest of the message states, "Please append a correct "root=" boot option. Then the system halts at a kernel panic. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Standard FC6.test3 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Load OS 2. Reboot 3. Actual results: Kernel Panic Expected results: No Kernel Panic Additional info: This is using a HP a1450n with a SATA drive. refer to the link below for hardware details. http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/store_access.do? template_type=product_detail&product_code=ER902AA%23ABA I haven't checked, but my suspicion is the SATA (Nvidia) driver is set to load as a module by default. The grub.conf looks alright.
Something is horribly wrong with anaconda in test3. On all the systems I've tried installing so far, it fails to install an initrd. If you boot to rescue mode (boot the CD with 'linux rescue'), /mnt/sysimage/boot has no initrd present.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 206453 ***