Fedora 10 install: Choosing additional repositories causes kernel panic

Thu Nov 27 05:34:14 UTC 2008

On two different systems, on an i686 laptop and in VirtualBox running on 
an AMD64 OpenSolaris system, I was able to perform installation 
successfully, only to be greeted with this message when I tried to boot 
my newly installed Fedora system:

Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown 
block(0,0)

At first I thought that this was because I was using xfs for my root 
partition (actually logical volume), but the problem turned out to be 
caused by my choosing "Fedora" and "Fedora updates" as repositories in 
addition to the "installation repository".

Has someone used the additional repositories feature and not experienced 
this problem? This feature is described here:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f10/en_US/ch-packageselection.html#sn-additional-repos