[Fedora-livecd-list] Fedora 7 fails to boot "Cannot find root file system"

[Jeremy Katz]

On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 23:24 -0400, Jon Steer wrote:
> I have built an FC 7 LiveCD on a FC7 system with a kickstart file that
> was modified from the original. Upon booting, I get a large amount of
> Ata2.00 exceptions and an error message that it cannot find the root
> file system. Afterwards, I get a message about creating a symlink for
> /dev/root.

This usually means that the kernel is having problems... based on what
you said in your later mail, are you testing here in qemu (or something
qemu based)?  If so, is it qemu 0.9.0 or later?  If not, then there are
bugs in qemu < 0.9.0 that prevent it from working properly with ata_piix

Jeremy