Description of problem: I have downloaded and installed RHEL 5 Beta2 Snapshot 9. I entered "SV" as key during installation. The following messages are displayed during boot: ####### VFS: Cannot open root device "sdc1" 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) input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0 ####### Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL5 Beta2 SnapShot 9 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. install RHEL5 Beta2 SnapShot 9 2. enter "SV" as key during install 3. complete installation process 4. boot the system Actual results: SYSTEM HANG at initrd load time. Expected results: SYSTEM should continue to boot. Additional info: I have already found the resolution to the problem. After some hands on, I figured that the initrd was not created after install process was completed . I booted through another working partition from AS4 , chrooted to my AS5 partition and executed "mkinitrd " command and edited my /boot/grub/menu.lst to point to the new initrd and everything worked okay. My system details ----------------- DELL PowerEdge 1800 Root partition is on Adapted raid ( driver aacraid )
This is a dupe of bug 201875, and is fixed in the RHEL 5 Beta 2 drop. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 201875 ***