From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020519 Description of problem: Red Hat will not install on my laptop (even though Debian will.) Red Hat versions 7.1, 7.2, 7.92 and 7.3 all fail at the same point with the following message: EXT2-fs: unable to read super block cramfs: wrong magic FAT: unable to read boot sector isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=09:02, iso_blknum=16, block=32 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 09:02 At which point it stops. I have formatted the whole filesystem, installed Debian on it twice. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Put in Red Hat boot media (floppy or CD) 2.Boot 3.Error above obtained. Will only hard reboot Actual Results: System hangs Expected Results: Red Hat installation Additional info:
Can you give some description of the hardware ? CPU, ram, videochipset etc ?
celeron 733 128Mb ram (16 shared with video) SiS 630 video 6 Gb Hard drive Please note that I have had Red Hat previously installed on this machine. After the reported error I have done a full format of the drive and run scan disk and had no reported errors. Sorry for the delay
>128Mb ram (16 shared with video) >SiS 630 video I've had a report where the "shared" bits somehow got misdetected. Could you try passing the mem=111M parameter to the kernel and see if that helps?
Yipppeeee, yes it does, I have a functional laptop again. Thanks very much. Kind regards Xander
Could you attach the dmesg output from a normal boot? Maybe I can see something that indicates what's up (or maybe there's nothing special.. who knows)
That worked very well indeed. Thanks very much :-)