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Re: Kernel 3.2.0 panics



On Sat, 2014-07-05 at 13:41 -0700, AC wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been searching for about a month trying to fix the kernel panic on
> boot for 3.2.0-4 with no luck so far.  I get the well documented error:
> 
> No filesystem could mount root: tried:
> Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(0,0)
> (plus stack dump)
> 
> however none of the suggested fixes (the few that exist) work.  My
> system is a Pentium II and recently upgraded to wheezy.  I've tried both
> the 3.2.0-4-686pae and the 3.2.0-4-486 images with identical results,
> they all end with the kernel panic above.
> 
> I'm currently running kernel image 2.6.39 which is working fine, I just
> can't get any 3.2 image to work at all.  Suggestions and help are very
> much appreciated.

It sounds like your boot loader is not loading the initramfs, or the
initramfs is somehow corrupted.  Are you using LILO or GRUB?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. - Anne Morrow Lindberg

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