Description of problem: kernel panic while trying to install Fedora 11 Alpha Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1.Create a new VMWare Image in VMWare Workstation 6. Used the following default options 1024 MB RAM, 8GB HDD, CD/DVD, Floppy, LAN (NAT), USB Controller, Sound Card, Display and 1 processor. 2.Booted from ISO image. Actual results: kernel panic: not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(9.2) Expected results: The installation should begin to prompt me for various settings. Additional info: I have used VMWare to test Fedora since Fedora Core 4 and it was worked without any problem.
Can you capture the kernel boot log and attach it?
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Error during first stage of installation. kernel panic: not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(202,17) I'm trying to install from downloaded Fedora-11-x86_64-DVD.iso (not beta) PC: HP Proliant ML110G4 Server (Xeon CPU) Currently installed Fedora 10 (32bit)
I'm seeing the same when trying to boot already installed fedora11 PV guest on RHEL 5.3 (updated to latest) xen host.
both host and guest are x86_64
It seems like my first installation attempts didn't complete correctly. In a third attempt everything seems to be working. It's odd that install process failed without notifying me anything is wrong. As well I don't see a big difference between my third attempt and the other two and why the first two failed.
Same issue, but after install on my Thinkpad T41. When booting normally: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) When booting to grub command line: grub> root (hd0,0) grub> kernel /boot/vmlinux-2.6.31-0.174.rc7.git2.fc12.i686 grub> initrd /boot/initrd-generic-2.6.31-0.174.rc7.git.fc12.i686.img grub> boot A wall of text that I can't scroll through flies by. The last screen shown has this: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Freeing unused kernel memory: 1764k freed Write protecting the kernel text: 5260k Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 1772k mknod used greatest stack depth: 6760 bytes left mknod used greatest stack depth: 6760 bytes left mknod used greatest stack depth: 6760 bytes left dracut: dracut-0.9-2.fc12 dracut: dracut-0.9-2.fc12 dracut: FATAL: No or empty root= argument dracut: Refusing to continue dracut: FATAL: No or empty root= argument dracut: Refusing to continue Signal caught! Boot has failed, sleeping forever. Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw:5.9, id: 02c6ab1, caps 0x884793/0x0 serio: Synaptics pass-through port at isa0060/serio1/input0 input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input5 async/1 used greatest stack depth: 5872 bytes left IBM TrackPoint firmware: 0x0e, buttons: 3/3 input: TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/input/inpu t6 _ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tried my best to copy it as exactly as possible, and I would have more info if I could scroll up. Hope it helps.
Same issue: Dell 4600, Fedora11 CDs from torrent. Reinstalled, problem disappeared. IIRC: The difference between the two installs: 1. For the failed install, I checked the additional repository boxes. 2. Checked "configure now" for the successful install, during the software selection. No chance to try reproducing to figure out if either option is causing the issue, the machine is needed.
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