Bug#494422: [initramfs-tools] upgrading from 0.89 to 0.92e gets a kernel panic on next reboot
* Monkey D. Luffy <the.real.monkey.d.luffy@gmail.com> [2008-08-09 12:05]:
> I reboot the system and surprise: grub was *overwritten* by lilo!!!
> I try to boot anyway... and another surprise:
> ================
> ramdisk: couldn't find valid ram disk image starting at 0
> list of all partitions:
> no filesystem could mount root, tried:
> kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs in unknown-block (8,1)
This is a known bug in lilo, see #479607 Although I see it was
fixed in version 1:22.8-6. Which version of lilo do you have
installed?
> I reboot the system and surprise: grub was *overwritten* by lilo!!!
Maybe this is what happens when you have both grub and lilo installed.
But I don't know.
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Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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