Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 235170
fedora 5 installation problem in SATA harddisks
Last modified: 2008-05-06 15:27:16 EDT
Description of problem: hi I'm a newbee to linux installation.... i bought a laptop(HCL-Indian brand)with Hitachi SATA harddisk 120GB,and tried loading fedora 5... first i got error "AN ERROR HAS OCCURED - NO VALID DEVICES WERE FOUND ON WHICH TO CREATE NEW FILESYSTEMS. PLEASE CHECK YOUR HARDWARE FOR THE CAUSE OF THIS PROBLEM." then i used this command to detect harddisk linux all-generic-ide noapic nolapic (I got this from some forum) thn my harddisk got detected and i was able to install FC5.. but when i tried to boot it.... i got this error... Mount: error No such device or address mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3 Setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory Setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory Setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory Switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory Kernel panic – not syncing: Attempted to kill init! How do i solve this problem.... please help soon.... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora core 5 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
*** Bug 235171 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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