On 12/03/2010 01:48 PM, William Stock wrote:
On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 13:24 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> On 12/03/2010 12:21 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>> I am reinstalling Fedora 12 on a system. I specified a custom partition
>> layout and then I just reselect the partitions and format them, putting
>> the same directories on each. I have done this 4 times on this system,
>>
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> Well I just went through a rebuild again. This time selecting to
> install on the whole drive, then customizing the layout. I get the same
> kernel panic on unknown-block(0,0).
>
When I get really screwy results I start looking at other possibilities,
such as bad drive or bad memory. Since the problem repeats itself
exactly, I'd say it's not an intermittent, as a power supply would be.
The system passed the memory test on the F14 install CD. I was able to
mount the drive from the F12 rescue mode. I don't know what tests to
perform on the disk to check on block(0,0). Probably to boot sector got
zapped? There is NO windows cruft on this system; it did come to me
with XP on it, but I only booted that once to check out that the system
worked before installing Fedora 12 the first time.
I am having trouble with the DVD/CDrom as it does not open in a vertical
position (as it will be in my rack), but I can't see how the drive not
opening easily would cause a kernel panic.
So how should I test the drive, and if it is the boot sector I need to
rewrite, how do I do that?
And I know that F12 is eol. Amahi on F14 is still in development, so I
will be running F12 for a few more months.