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greystreet

Member

Registered: 2006-04-29

Posts: 12

Sorry dumb kernel panic problem

I am trying to install Arch 7.2 on a VMware ESX server.  After installation everything works just fine.  I immediatly do the following:

pacman -Syu

After the install I reboot the new server and I get a kernel panic.  This is what it says:

No filesystem could mount root, tried:
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

Anyways,  I tried putting earlymodules=piix into GRUB but had no such luck.

Any ideas all?

Physical hardware is a Dell 2850 server 2 proccessors 16GB memory Fibre  connection to EMC CX500 SAN.

Virtual server is just a basic VM machine....

Thanks all,

Grey

tm8992

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Registered: 2007-01-01

Posts: 36

Re: Sorry dumb kernel panic problem

Edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst
Change this line:

initrd /boot/initrd26.img

(or something similar; it should be at the end of the section "# (0) Arch Linux" to:

initrd /boot/kernel26.img

greystreet

Member

Registered: 2006-04-29

Posts: 12

Re: Sorry dumb kernel panic problem

Thank you so much, worked perfect.

So did I miss something, why did that change?

Thanks again!

Grey

tm8992

Member

Registered: 2007-01-01

Posts: 36

Re: Sorry dumb kernel panic problem

I'm not totally sure, but I did encounter the error a few days ago when upgrading (right after a fresh install).  I think I remember seeing that initrd is no longer being used.  But don't quote me on that.

STiAT

Member

From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2004-12-23

Posts: 606

Re: Sorry dumb kernel panic problem

mkinitrd changes.

read the messages you get when you install / upgrade packages.

// STi

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