Cannot install FC 4

[Rick Stevens]

On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 22:55 +0100, Mikael Rasmussen wrote:
> I am trying to install FC4 on a windows machine, but every time I try, i 
> get the following errors:
> 
> "Cannot open device <NULL>..........."
> "Please append a correct..................."
> "..................."
> Kernel panic - Not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown 
> block(8,3)
> 
> The system is as follows:
> 
> Motherboard: ASRock K8Upgrade-VM800
> Processor: AMD Sempron 3000+
> HDD (200GB): Maxtor 6L200PO - Drive C: 19,52 GB (FAT32) - Drive D: 68,35 
> GB (NTFS) - Rest: 102,01 GB Unformatted.
> 
> 
> Can anyone help on this. My girlfriend wants a computer with the same 
> great opportunities as my own

Try entering "linux nodma nofb" to the "boot:" prompt:

	boot: linux nodma nofb

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