"Boot has failed, sleeping forever." Suggest some solution for this.

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Published on 2010-02-20T20:31:58Z Indexed on 2010/06/05 15:42 UTC
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I downloaded Fedora from here. While trying to install it, I am getting this error:

No root device found. 
Boot has failed, sleeping forever.

I tried searching on it (found codehead and fedoraforum) and came to know that it is a known bug, but couldn't find any solution to it.

Do you know any solution to this?

OR

Do you know a distribution of Fedora that does not have these problems?

[I am trying to install Fedora on my Windows Vista machine]

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