Kernel panic on first boot in fedora 3

From: Alexandre Van Haecke (avhaecke_at_club-internet.fr)
Date: 11/16/04

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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:03:04 +0100

    Hi all,
    I've just downloaded and installed Fedora 3 x86_64 on an nforce 3 board
    with an Athlon 64 socket 939 and a SATA disk (important detail)
    As far as I could tell installation went well but upon reboot I got the
    fatal message when selecting fedora at the grub prompt :
     [...]
     ata2 failed to respond (30 secs)
     mkrootdev: label /1 not found
     mount: error 2 mounting ext3
     mount: error 2 mounting none
     switchroot: mount failed: 22
     umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
     Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

    And that's it...
    I can boot in rescue mode ("linux rescue" at boot prompt ) and mount the file system in rescue mode.
    With Fedora 2 and the latest kernels (2.6.8) I had somewhat similar problems (same architecture exactly).
    With Fedora 2, I got the following message at boot :

    Kernel Panic : VFS Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (0, 0)

    To be precise, my system worked fine with Fedora 2 and kernel 2.6.5-1.358 (and yes options in grub.conf were the same in fedora 2).

    Thus, my main questions are to the fedora list : what can I do (through kernel recompile, or grub.conf options)or whatever) to adress the issue ?
    Any suggestion is welcome...

    Alexandre 

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