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Description of problem: Hello Everyone, I am helping a friend to install Fedora 8 on his laptop. It is a HP pavilion dv9000 with Vista. After partitioning the disk with qtparted, we installed FC8 x86_64 with no glitches. On the first boot, we never get any joy because the system always gives us /dev/root not found and stops with a kernel panic. I have searched bugzilla and Fedora Forum for a solution, but I think this is still a serious bug. Many people had this problem when FreeBSD was installed on their drive, or had a RAID drive. But in this case, there are only four partitions, two for Vista, one for linux root and one for linux swap. I have tried turning off apic and apm in grub, but no joy. I have tried booting the rescue disk and reinstalling GRUB, still no joy. I have tried booting the rescue disk, doing a yum update, and rerunning mkinitrd as suggested in other bug reports, still doesn't work. Changing root=/dev/sda3 from LABEL=/ did not work either. I suspect there is something in the sata hard drive driver, however, I am curious why the system boots fine using the install disk? Thanks in advance. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 8 How reproducible: Every Time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora 8 from install 8 2. reboot 3. system hangs after nash with /dev/root not found among other things. For example, it also claims it can't resume because it could not find the swap disk, but I assume this is a related problem to a bigger issue because when I add noresume to the boot parameters, this message no longer appears, but /dev/root is still not found Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Please remove the options rhgb quiet from the kernel command line and replace them with vga=1 Then see if there are any more error messages.
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