The error messages i'm receiving at boot:

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creating root device.
mounting root filesystem
mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
setting up other filesystems
setting up new root fs
setuproot - moving /dev failed. no such file or directory
no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
--snip--
booting failed.


Here's my menu.lst:

title Fedora
        root (hd0,5)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=LABEL=the lab rhgb quiet
        module /boot/initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img


And my fstab:

/dev/sda6               /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
/dev/sda8               /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
/dev/sda9               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0


mtab:

/dev/root / ext3 rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0