Bug 208716 - fails to find drive to boot from after install
Summary: fails to find drive to boot from after install
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-09-30 18:41 UTC by Kevin Seghetti
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: FC6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-10-28 12:50:20 UTC
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Description Kevin Seghetti 2006-09-30 18:41:01 UTC 
Description of problem:
Fails to boot after a fresh install of 64 bit version.

Hardware:
AMD 64 X2 4400 on ECS nForce4-A939 Motherboard with 2Gig of RAM. Installing on
IDE hard drive.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
fc6test3 64 bit version

How reproducible:
Every time I try to boot, tried re-installing twice, on different hard drives. 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install fc6test3 64 bit version from dvd
2. fails to boot after installer finishes


Actual results:
(boot log expcerpt)
ACPI Exception:(acpi_processor-0237): AE_NOT_FOUND, Evaluating _PSS[20060707]
powernow-k8: BIOS error - no PSB or ACPI _PSS objects
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
md: autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
VFS: Cannot open root device "VolGroup00/LogVol00" or unknown-block(0.0)
please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)


Expected results:
system booting

Additional info:
Please let me know if there are additional tests I can perform to narrow this down.
Comment 1 Kevin Seghetti 2006-10-28 12:50:20 UTC 
This now works for me in the FC6 release.
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