Re: Strange failure of FC4 installation - kernel panic

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On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 16:58 +0000, pjbk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I hope someone can help me here
> 
> I am trying to install Fedora Core 4 on a P4 with 512Meg memory
> 
> I boot from the first CD, and the initial Fedora installation screen
> appears.  Whatever option I choose, it loads VMlinux, something else I
> don't remember, and goes through a number of standards or tof start up
> messages before exiting with a kernel panic.  Unfortunately the messages
> disappear before I can note the full text, but it seems to be something to
> do with being unable to find a system with label NULL or (8,3)
> 
> If I try to boot specifying an explicit root= parameter then the same
> message occurs with the device name replace NULL and (0,0) instead of
> (8,3)
> 
> Any clues as to what I might be doing wrong?
> 
> I have installed FC4 on other systems before with no problem
> 
> Peter King
> 

In case it doesn't.
Can you post your hardware (especially disk) configuration?

Gilboa


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