Not detecting my sata hard disk and dvd drive during installation

[Alan Cox]

> paritioned volume. I tried to install Fedora in my
> system. Once cd got booted from my Optiarc ATA dvd drive, to my

Which release of Fedora

> surprise i found that it hasnt detected my hard disk as well as my cd
> rom. Well then i used a command at the cmd (linux acpi apci
> pci=acpi)...then it detected my dvd drive and hdd. and my installation
> started and i finished it .
> 
>   But once it got over, when os got booted it was constantly
> restarting and not loading dvd driver or hdd again. The message was
> somewhat like "Kernel panics and cant sync", and cant mount the root
> volume).

Does it work if you pass the same command options when booting from hard
disk ?