Re: Debian Boot Problem

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Author: kitepilot@kitepilot.com
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Debian Boot Problem
> kernel panic not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown
This generally means that initrd doesn't have the drivers for either the
hardware with the or the filesystem in the boot partition.
Weird...
ET



Mark Phillips writes:

> I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade this morning on an old server
> (Debian Squeeze) and the system won't boot now. I get the error
>
> kernel panic not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown
> -block(0,0)
>
> One of the updates was to kernel 2.6.32-5-686. I can boot in to safe mode
> with this kernel, and the upgrade wiped out the older version of the kernel.
>
> I have googled for possible solutions, but nothing helpful is popping up. I
> am also running grub, and not grub2, but that is OK for this kernel
> according to debian.org.
>
> Any suggestions on how to proceed?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark

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