<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/29/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Frank Lenhard</b> <<a href="mailto:franky@ixdream.com">franky@ixdream.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
any idea someone? i was reading up a lot on this error on other<br>forums, but it mostly appears when the hard drive support breaks while<br>compiling a new kernel or such.<br>with me its right from the install dvd. i dont even see the installer.
<br>i also tried the option root=/dev/hdc but it didnt changed anything.<br><br>ciao<br>franky<br><br><br>This is a forwarded message<br>From: Frank Lenhard <<a href="mailto:franky@ixdream.com">franky@ixdream.com</a>>
<br>To: <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a><br>Date: Sunday, August 28, 2005, 2:29:41 PM<br>Subject: newbie cant install fedora<br><br>===8<==============Original message text===============
<br>Hello list,<br><br>first post here.:)<br><br>i downloaded the fedora core4 iso, burned the dvd and<br>try to install linux.<br>for some reason linux doesnt boot into the installer but instead gives<br>me a kernel panic error:
<br><br>kernel panic not synching: VFS: unable to mount root FS to unknown<br>block (3,2)<br>then flowwed by screens full of numbers and codes.<br><br>i use a opteron246 system with 2gb ram, QuadroFX1000 and for this<br>purpose a ide harddisk.
<br>on this harddisk is a installation of suse linux.<br>i tried the noprobe and acpi=off options at the promt (when it aks me<br>to hit enter to get to the graphical installer)<br><br>any help would be greatly appreciated.
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