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arture

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Registered: 2021-08-09

Posts: 9

[SOLVED] Kernel panic in new install

Hello,
I've recently (yesterday) installed Arch on an older machine I had, and upon rebooting it this evening, I'm hitting a kernel panic. Here's the report.

Before the kernel panic screen, I get this message: fs/fshelp.c:find_file:260:file `/initramfs-linux.img` not found.

I don't know if it is linked to the new update. I _think_ I have rebooted the computer successfully since the install, but I'm not completely sure, so it could be that I messed up then. I'm not dual-booting, or doing anything weird. I'm using GRUB as my bootloader. I have successfully used Ubuntu and NixOS on that machine previously.

I'm kind of out of my depth here, any help would be appreciated.

Last edited by arture (2025-11-15 10:20:13)

jonno2002

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Registered: 2016-11-21

Posts: 851

Re: [SOLVED] Kernel panic in new install

[    1.038083] VFS: Cannot open root device "UUID=fa19698f-bf8d-4c86-a47b-ef193c1ac7bc" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6
[    1.038088] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:

the kernel is looking for a UUID of a partition that doesnt exist, you need to boot the installation media and mount your partitions and arch-chroot in and fix grub and possibly your fstab, let us know if and where you get stuck, will definately need output of:

lsblk -f && cat /mnt/etc/fstab

after youve mounted the partitions but before entering the chroot

arture

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Registered: 2021-08-09

Posts: 9

Re: [SOLVED] Kernel panic in new install

Thanks for your answer. It seems reinstalling grub solved the issue. I don't understand why it happened, but it looks like the the partition the kernel was looking for was not the boot partition but my main one. I probably messed something up during the install.

Thanks again!