Kernel panic: unable to access device ... swap or others..
 

Hi guys!
I got stacked even before seeing the welcome screen!

I've installed fedora core 8 (and i've tried several times with different type of installations), but even when I manage to boot the OS I got an error message, a kernel panic, that is usually something like: I cannot access the swap partition, or I cannot access (/mount) /dev/root.

What I am supposed to do to make it run?

The configuration of my Pc is:
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.40ghz
4 Gb ram
3 hard disk:
- the first two are used in fakeRaid (using intel matrix storage) and are ntfs partitions with win xp;
- the third one is the one where I installed fedora (version x86_64).

Other info:
My bios has no problems in booting from the usb drive and since I was confused about what would have happened in overwriting the MBR of a disk in fake Raid, I decided first to try to install linux on my third drive with the /boot partition installed on my pen drive (/dev/sda) and grub installed on my pen drive too; the second try I installed all the fedora on the third drive and grub on the MBR of this third drive (/dev/sdd) and I was selecting this drive to be booted first from the BIOS, in order to avoid that the PC starts with windows.

In both cases I ended up with kernel panics...

What did I do wrong?

If I need to post further information about my pc's configuration just tell me... ;-)

Thanks a lot guys....I really don't know what to do now..

Matteo

Additional Information: Complete error message
 

"
root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /vmlinz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x2c00, size=0x1d3c18]
initrd /initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img
[Linux-initrd @ 0x37c2e000, 0x3e1fdb bytes]
.
Decompressing Linux...done.
Booting the kernel.
Red Hat nash version 6.0.19 starting
Reading all physical volumes - This may take a while...
No volume group found.
Volume group "VolGroup00" not found
Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01)
mount: could not find filesystem 'dev/root'
setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory

Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

"

I just noticed that, if I understand well the previous message, the system is looking for a filesystem of type ext2 [Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83], while I'm quite sure that I formatted the linux partition with ext3 (during the installation process), may is this the source of the error???

Did you use entire third hard disk for your root partition,did you created root partition and did you created swap partition?

Looks like you don't have a valid LVM setup.
Don't worry about ext3 - it's just ext2 plus a journal; often reports (and is treated) as ext2.

Agreed,but it could be something else that can solve the problem,anyway I suggest OP to visit this link;
http://aplawrence.com/Linux/lvm.html

Solved
 

Ok...I really don't know how...but I """fixed it""".

I simply re-did the installation and instead of following the default LVM configuration I erased the Logical Volume and I used the standard three partitions (boot, swap, mount) and it worked...(boot loader installed on the MBR of the third (non-raid) disk, therefore avoiding troubles with my raid 1 with windows).

Apparently my pc didn't like the logical volume...

:-)