| From: Fennix <cn.stefan@xxxxxxxxx> [It is a good idea to only send plain text messages to a mailing list. Don't send HTML.] | I have some trouble to install Redhat's Fedora core 4 product onto the | computer here. I have been doing a lot of looking on the Internet but have | no results to helping to accomplish this. This computer has a Onda 910glm | mother board with 512mb RAM, Intel Celeron D 331 (LGA775 socket package). | S-ATA 120 Gb Maxtor hd, AMI BIOS (Ver. 08.00.11, build 02/24/05, ID: | I915V10M). A good and useful description of the hardware. | I boot from the CD to the main start screen and <ENTER> to | continue. Vmlinuz installs and probes the drives. Then I get error message | "Cannot open root device "NULL" or unknown block (3,2)....Kernel panic - | unable to mount root FS.... It would be better if you included more of the messages. | I am trying the x86_64 version (I also DL'ed the i386 version as well which | also fails to install). So now still stuck with WinXP (X64 Edition) until I | can solve this somehow..... Google is your friend. I don't have this board or experience with anything much like it, but I did find a lot by doing a google query for your message. "cannot open root device" "null" "or unknown block" Several were redhat bugzilla entries. I scanned a few quickly. This one looks as if it contains a workaround. And (later) an offer of a new boot.iso. Try it. If they don't work, read some more. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159026 | Does The basic Fedora Core 4 support the 64 bit Celeron D? Or will I need to | wait until FC5 is released? ..Perhaps the issue is something else again.... I cannot imagine that FC4 fails to support Celeron D. But installer bugs are something that cannot easily be fixed by updates. If all else fails, try FC3 -- it ought to have a different collection of installer bugs.
