Bug#571035: [squeeze alpha1] installationsreport: grub2: machine doesn't boot

[Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de>]

Hi,

Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
> > I installed that, and booted:
> > system starts and gets a kernel panic, because root file system is
> > unable to be found.
> 
> It's not exactly a kernel panic, but I know what you mean.

Output is:
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

> > That means at least, that grub2 is not the problem, what was my very
> > first thought.
> 
> Well, not being able to find the root FS may well be because GRUB is not 
> configured correctly. When you are dropped into the debug shell, check the 
> contents of /dev and /dev/disk/by-uuid to see if your hard disk and root 
> partition are present.

I'm not exactly sure, what you mean.
When I boot and that booting fails, I'm not dropped to a debug shell. 
System simply stopps.


Holger

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