Fedora won't boot successfully after installation

[Jeff Vian]

Stefan Frank wrote:

> Hello,
>
> After installing Fedora Core 1, my computer won't boot Linux 
> successfully, ending with the message
>
>     mkrootdev: label / not found
>         Mounting root filesystem
>         mount: error 2 mounting ext3
>
> and a Kernel panic because it can't find an init.
>
> When booting from the installation CD, already, i get the message
>     
>     unable to read partition table

This is your first clue you are in trouble.

Repartition the drive ---  force it to do that.

I have had cases where the windows partition wa sunreadable because of 
differences in how the os read the drive -- logincal mapping of the CHS 
was different and it would not work.   I blew away the partition table 
completely,  rebooted, then created a new partition table and everything 
was happy.