On 11/13/07, fedora <fedora@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Listers > never had so much troubles installing fedora as compared to fed 8: > > after installation and getting stuck when "Installing bootloader" in the > MBR of the first disk, first partition (hd0,0), and then upgrading twice > with the recommended option "Upgrade Bootloader" i still get: > > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > unknown-blocked(0,0) > > Grub params are: > > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/bmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=/dev/sda1 rhgb quiet > Remove "rhgb quiet" from kernel parameters to see the errors. IMHO, since FC7, Grub & fstab use LABEL schema: root=LABEL=Label_of_Volume instead of root=/dev/sda1 -- http://vnoss.org