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ezzetabi

Member

Registered: 2006-08-27

Posts: 947

Kernel Panic

Some days ago I updated the system and rebooting this message appear before the loading of the daemons:
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknow-block(0,0)

Thinking I made something wrong I reninstalled ArchLinux since my "/home" is in a separate partition it is not a problem to me.
Pity just after I installed the base package, setted the internet connection, updated with pacman I had the same fatal message...

What I am doing wrong? Can you help me?
Thanks.

omgwtfbyobbq

Member

Registered: 2006-07-04

Posts: 226

Re: Kernel Panic

I'm pretty sure that's the same problem I had earlier as well. There was an upgrade from mkinitrd/mkinitramfs to mkinitcpio and I didn't create the proper img file after. You should probably try booting into a livecd, chrooting into arch, and reinstalling mkinitrd to see if your machine boots. If it does, then install mkinitcpio again and make sure to run the appropriate command that generates an appropriate boot img, it's someplace in the annoucement thread.

tpowa

Developer

From: Lauingen , Germany

Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 2,328

Re: Kernel Panic

total wrong instruction,
just changing image name from initrd26.img to kernel26.img should solve the trouble

detto

Member

Registered: 2006-01-23

Posts: 510

Re: Kernel Panic

just changing image name...

... in your lilo.conf or menu.lst...

...from initrd26.img to kernel26.img should solve the trouble

ezzetabi

Member

Registered: 2006-08-27

Posts: 947

Re: Kernel Panic

But renaming the img file /boot/initrd26.img file or changing /boot/grub/menu.lst will I continue using mkinitcpio?

anyhow thanks!