Help Needed in Booting to Fedora Core 5

[ramana_dodda]

I am a new bie to Linux, recently I installed Fedora Core 5 on my system.

My System Configuration is as follows.

Processor - PIV 2.8 Ghz
RAM - 1.5 GB
Hard Disk - 200 GB.

Fedora Core installed successfully, but when i try to boot to Fedora Core, it is throwing the following error.

Booting 'Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp)'
root (hd0, 7)

File System type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

Kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15_1.2054_FC5Smp ro root =/dev/volGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet

[Linux - bzimage, setup =0x1e00, Size = 0x170ac]

uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.

Kernel panic - not syncing. VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)


I tried everything Please help me resolving this issue.
Previously I successfully installed Ubuntu on my system. It worked fine.
I don't know why I am getting this error for Fedora Core.



Please help me....................

[Dapper Dan]

Found this for you...
Link

[ramana_dodda]

Found this for you...
Link

Thanks for the info.. but I need solution. Anybody please.....

[siliconheart]

i have seen kernel.x.x.smp crashing many times on my Proliant server.. try the non-smp version(not the boot kernel or sada khushbo ) if you are using standard fedora5 cds its in cd1/Fedora/RPMS/kernel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.i686.rpm

[siliconheart]

make sure Grub.conf has entries in order to select kernel on boot...

[ramana_dodda]

siliconheart,

I am new bie to linux. I don't know what to do. Please can you explain in detail?

Thanks in advance

[budman7]

To see what is in your grub.conf, do this.

less /boot/grub/grub.conf

or

less /boot/grub/menu.lst

Also, do

less /etc/fstab

And post the results.

[ramana_dodda]

To see what is in your grub.conf, do this.

less /boot/grub/grub.conf

or

less /boot/grub/menu.lst

Also, do

less /etc/fstab

And post the results.


But how do I get the linux prompt, since it is not booting to linux environment

or you mean to say using "Resuce Disk"?

[budman7]

Oops, sorry about that.
You could grab a Mepis or Knoppix livecd, boot up with it.
Just access the partition where your FC is installed, you will see an icon on the desktop.
And then you should be able to see what is in the folders.
www.distrowatch.com has what you need.

[ramana_dodda]

grub.conf

default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5Smp)
root(hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5Smp ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet

etc/fstab
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 default 1 1
LABEL = /boot /boot ext3 default 1 2
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5
mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs default 0 0
proc /proc proc default 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs default 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap default 0 0