FC2 install error

[rune]

for some reason, the Cd's that i burn that are supposed to be bootable for FC2 cannot start on my computer, heres what happens:

the fedora instll screen shows up, i press enter, and then it says some stuff about how i need to append a root= boot parameter, and it says i can't access the current partition (or some block on the disk)

then i burned a CD that fedora claims is another bootable CD for installing, and that thing gives me the exact same error

then i tried to use a USB boot, but i can't get that to work. i have an attache 128MB, i installed FC1 to use dd to write it (dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sda1), but it can't boot that way, and i know my bios supports it

so right now, i'm at a loss at what i can do to install FC2, i dont want to use yum to upgrade from FC1, i heard it can be very unstable, and i dont know how to use PXE, is here some way to use FC1's grub bootloader to kickstart FC2's cd installer, or kickstart a USB install?

thanks..

[kamina]

I'm getting pretty much the same error. Everytime I start the installation I get past the part to select graphical / text and enter arguments, then it ends with the following lines:


VFS: Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown block(72,3)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(72,3)


I tried graphical and non-graphical setup, but get the same error. I also get it when selecting the media test. My workmate thought it might be some compatibility problem with the hardware so I tried the noprobe argument without any change...

Could I try some other arguments that could help or what?

It's an old compaq computer

BX chipset based motherboard
P3 600 coppermine
512mb ram
ibm 180gxp
seagate barracuda II
samsung cd-rw

[rune]

hmm, it seemed to have been a bad CD that was burned,

i think each cd has burned on one of the first sectors a ramdisk and the bad cd that i had probably caused it to fail

kamina, maybe u have a badly burned cd also, try burning a new one, or downloading a new copy of cd1, and try the install again

[kamina]

It was a bad cd. Downloaded the dvd as I bought a new computer with an A64 processor.

[Chungkuo]

I've been burning the CDs with Nero and have the same issue. Anyone know of a better app to burn it with? Maybe I'll try buring off an OS-X box ...