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Intrepidus

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Registered: 2007-02-08

Posts: 54

Fresh install, fresh upgrade, fresh kernel panic

Giving ArchLinux a second go here, and I've hit a rut:

I installed from CD, with only the base packages selected. Once the system was up, I did a pacman -Syu, replaced the 3 programs it prompted me for (sorry, I can't remember them - the same three every installation, but the names I can't remember). It upgraded with no errors, at which point I did a reboot.

That's when I got a kernel panic. Here's the last few lines:

RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed
No filesystem could mount root, tried:
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

Intrepidus

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Registered: 2007-02-08

Posts: 54

Re: Fresh install, fresh upgrade, fresh kernel panic

Apparently my problem was easier than I thought.

I found another post on this through Google that required me to change the image to kernel26-fallback.img, and add earlymodules=piix to the kernel line.

It's all better now!

kukacomone

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Registered: 2007-03-15

Posts: 8

Re: Fresh install, fresh upgrade, fresh kernel panic

I had the same problem two days ago, and i couldnt fix it. Yesterday i tried it again, and after i did pacman -syu i did a reboot. After this i got an error msg: "Error loading operatin system". I dont know it was grub or not.. I noticed pacman -syu updated grub too.

stb

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Registered: 2007-03-13

Posts: 40

Re: Fresh install, fresh upgrade, fresh kernel panic

Error loading operatin system

F*cked MBR. Don't think it was pacman's fault though. It should not exec grub and update your MBR. That would be a bad behaviour. I hope your partition table is alright.

kukacomone

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Registered: 2007-03-15

Posts: 8

Re: Fresh install, fresh upgrade, fresh kernel panic

Yeah i think its alright. But what shuold i do? I reinstall 2x time arch, and the same error after i did the update. I really like to try arch.

Stoffi

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Registered: 2007-03-15

Posts: 107

Re: Fresh install, fresh upgrade, fresh kernel panic

Apparently my problem was easier than I thought.

I found another post on this through Google that required me to change the image to kernel26-fallback.img, and add earlymodules=piix to the kernel line.

It's all better now!

Could you please explain here in more detail what you did?
I am trying GNU/Linux for the first time, and I am having a hard time when I get this error..

*edit*
I tried to google it myself, and all I needed to do was to edit my grub configuration.

I changed the initrd line to:
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

this worked for me.

Last edited by Stoffi (2007-03-15 22:40:39)

penguinstarship

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Registered: 2006-10-10

Posts: 52

Re: Fresh install, fresh upgrade, fresh kernel panic

A friend of mine had a similar error when I set him up with Arch, I thought it was the need for a fallback appended to it, so I would edit it save it and then it would boot, and sometimes it wouldn't boot, it was being really touchy.