Kernel panic on fresh install of FC8

[liquorvicar]

I have been trying to install Fedora on a white box:
Intel Celeron 3.2Mhz
Asus P5VD2-VM SE motherboard
Seagate 80Gb SATA HDD
Neither FC6 or FC7 worked - nether would recognise the HDD at the partition stage of the install options.
I managed to install FC8 (or so I thought); it ran all the way through the process and asked me to reboot to finish the installation. On reboot I get this message:
"Uncompressing linux...ok, booting the kernel.
crc error
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0:0)"
I'm new to this OS-installation level game (although fairly proficient on the command-line on an already installed system) but from what I can make out, it looks like my system does not recognise the HDD on reboot. I can boot into rescue mode and /mnt/sysimage seems to contain the installed OS as I would expect, although when I try "chroot /mnt/sysimage" I get "error while loading shared library: libdl.so.2"
The relevant bit from /mnt/sysimage/etc/grub.conf is
##############
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.23.1-42.fc8)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlunuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
##############

Any ideas? TIA!

[FriedChips]

I think I would format and try again just to be sure, but yes it looks like it is not recognizing the hard drive/hard drive controller properly. The crc error, I believe refers to Cyclical Redundancy Checking, which is a feature of most SCSI RAID controllers. I highly doubt that SATA controller uses CRC, but it might. You should look into what SATA controller it uses. You may be able to get an add in card to replace it if you have any pci-e slots open, so long as you know what will work for it.

[liquorvicar]

I think this might be a hardware issue. I've tried to re-install a few times (totally clean install each time including full HDD format and partition) and each time more and more errors are appearing. Tried an Ubuntu server install and that failed too...

Thanks for your help.

[glennzo]

Got a spare hard drive to try?

[banguit]

I have the same problem

My CPU:
Athlon 64 X2 Dual 4200+
Samsung SP0802N 80 Gb
Early Fedora 6 and 7 were installed perfectly.

Please help if you know what this.

[simo]

I know this is an old post but i am getting the same message from a live CD of Fedora 10, I have tried on three different computers and all give the same result. I am fairly new to Linux but been playing with Ubuntu a little and wanted to give fedora a go, ultimately like like to be able to ditch the windows machine! I have tried burning the image twice as well, do I need to try and download again?

[glennzo]

If it didn't work on three different computers I'd say that the disk is at fault. I'd burn another disk first and if that didn't work then I'd probably download the image again and try that.

[simo]

Thanks, Glennzo, i was thinkign i would probably have to try and download again, it's going at the moment, hope it will work this time!

Cheers

Simo