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Novack

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From: Nebraska

Registered: 2008-06-30

Posts: 7

Kernel Panic, I think I broke it.

Kernel panic - nat syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

Umm.... What did I do to piss it off?

BTW: Using Sun xWM VirtualBox

Last edited by Novack (2008-07-01 00:48:45)

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Kernel Panic, I think I broke it.

Some blunder with partitioning/grub config, it seems.

Try booting with kernel-fallback.img (press e to edit a line in grub).

Show us your grub config and partitioning scheme.

Novack

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From: Nebraska

Registered: 2008-06-30

Posts: 7

Re: Kernel Panic, I think I broke it.

root hda(0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-unid/e0720c1d-59d3-433d-a2fb-2fe020e11ba6 ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img

Hope this is right?

Misfit138

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From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,189

Re: Kernel Panic, I think I broke it.

root hda(0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-unid/e0720c1d-59d3-433d-a2fb-2fe020e11ba6 ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img

Hope this is right?

Are those typos?
Should be more like:

root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/e0720c1d-59d3-433d-a2fb-2fe020e11ba6 ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img

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lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Kernel Panic, I think I broke it.

You typed it, I presume? It should be hd, not hda, and uuid, not unid. Must've been a pain retyping with those random chars :-)

Booting with kernel-fallback.img instead of kernel.img didn't help?

I don't know your partitioning scheme, but I suppose installer should get everything right. I see three possibilities: there's a bug in the installer, you made some mess while trying to leave vi or it's some Virtualbox issue - but I don't recall people ever mentioning anything like that.

In case you really did some bad things while trying to leave vi, I'd suggest reinstalling - it takes but a few minutes and would be easier than fixing it, considering your apparent level of expertise. Don't worry, stay with Arch a bit and you'll know how to tackle all kinds of issues.

Welcome to Arch, by the way.

Novack

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From: Nebraska

Registered: 2008-06-30

Posts: 7

Re: Kernel Panic, I think I broke it.

No, its typos. I went back and everything was right as Misfit138.
But I was able to log in as root after booting the kernel-fallback.img
Well Im mite go back and reinstall it if I cant find a way to fix it.

Last edited by Novack (2008-07-01 02:09:23)