On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 20:37, Rick Stevens wrote: > Scott A. Zanke wrote: > > Hello, > > I can't get FC3 to install. I am currently running FC1 on this box and > > have run RH7.3, 8 and 9 on it. > > Athlon 1Ghz, 768MB ram, TNT2 graphics card, Linksys LNE 100TX V5 nic, > > FC1 on HDB and Windows 2000 Pro on HDA using GRUB. > > I tried linux ide-nodma and the media check runs fine. > > Once Anaconda starts things get ugly. Tons of fast scrolling text most > > of which I believe says Bad Page State then it ends with.. > > VFS: cannot open root device "(null)" on unknown-block(8,3) > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > > Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on > > unknown-block(8,3) > > I've been digging through the archives but haven't found anything that > > relates. > > Any ideas? > > Well, I'd suggest the first thing is to open your box and reseat your > RAM and all of your PCI cards (pop them out and stick them back in). > I suggest this because bad page errors are often caused by questionable > RAM or cards that are freaking the PCI bus out. Reseating the cards > ensure it's not just grungy connectors causing problems. I've fixed > many a system just by doing that. > > Next, boot the first CD and run memtest86 to test the RAM you have. > Windows doesn't flog RAM the way Linux does, and the 2.4 kernel in FC1 > is easier on it than the 2.6 kernel in FC2/3. If the RAM passes, then > try to do the install again. > > If none of that does the trick, try a "noapic" option. If that fails, > try a "noapic" text install. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - The world is coming to an end ... SAVE YOUR FILES!!! - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks Rick, I did what you suggested as far as reseating the pci cards and ram and had the same problem. I looked at the ram with a windows application and saw I had a CL2 and two CL3's installed. I removed the CL2 and the install started fine but aborted while reading packages. I backed down memory settings in the bios and ran memtest86 overnight with no errors. I'll try again this morning. Scott
