Re: Newbie: Kernel Panic
On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 22:14, Brian Gonzales wrote:
> Well, I’ve gone and done it! J
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> I had my Debian Woody 3.0 system working just fine and just wanted to
> upgrade my Kernel. I did it once before and the process went
> swimingly. I then tried updating last night and hosed the boot
> process. I’m running the WinXP portion of my system, so I know
> *something’s* running properly.
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> When I boot, I see the Lilo screen giving an option of WinXP and
> that’s it. When I updated before, I saw 3 choices: WinXP, Debian (old
> kernel) and Debian (new kernel). Before I upgraded the kernel, I saved
> lilo.conf in a back up file (lilo.conf.05172003), so I feel if I can
> access a command line, I can restore the old lilo.conf.
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> Here’s where my boot-up hangs:
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> Kernel Panic: vfs: unable to mount root fs on 03:01
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> Any help would be appreciated!
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The thing this reminds me of is having forgotten to add the
"initrd=/initrd.img" line to the stanza in your new kernel in lilo.conf.
Add it, if indeed you forgot, and run lilo afterwards.
Chris
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