From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020408 Description of problem: The instalation does not work. Whatever option I choose for boot sequence, I reach to "Kernel panic" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start the instalation of RedHat Linux 7.3 from a local boot floppy disk 2.On the first screen, choose anything you want. 3. Actual Results: The instalation is stopped and I see the followings on the screen: ... EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock cramfs: wrong magic FAT: unable to read boot sector isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=09:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 09:00 Expected Results: The instalation should pass this and eneter the second stage ... Additional info: My configuration is: AMD Duron 700, 128M SDRAM, 40G HDD Maxtor, GeForce2 MX400 video card.
Please test your cd using 'linux mediacheck' to boot the installer, then run the tests.
The same thing happens! It is before specifying where is the instalation disks ... It is simply, after booting from the floppy disk, enter any option (even "linux mediacheck") and press <<Enter>> key. Then it begins to load initrd.img and vmlinuz, then, after one screen or two of output on the display appear the text I wrote it above. And that's it! I even tried to install Mandrake 8.2, and the result was exactly the same!
This appears to be a kernel issue, reassigning.
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