Re: Kernel Panic

[Alan Ianson <alianson@shaw.ca>]

On Wed December 13 2006 08:10, Morgan Walker wrote:
> Hey guys,
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> After updating to 2.6.16-2-amd64-k8-smp on my Sun X4100 I rebooted and
> got the following error:
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> VFS: Cannot open root device md0 or unknown-block(0,0)
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> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
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> Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(0,0)
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> And this is where it will stop during the boot process.  I am running a
> RAID1 on this machine.  When the screen comes up to choose which kernel
> I want to boot, I press "e" to edit the grub/menu.list, but all looks
> well.  Here is what I have:
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> root            (hd0,0)
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> kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-2-amd64-k8-smp root=/dev/md0 ro
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> initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.16-2-amd64-k8-smp

I thought the amd64-k8 and -smp kernels were merged into the -amd64.

> I'm stumped, what options do I have?

If you really have a kernel like that in /boot I'm stumped too.