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Re: Fwd: 2.6.26 and 2.6.29 kernel image , Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0



On 2009-06-26 05:38 +0200, Alex Samad wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 03:09:40AM +0200, Szabolcs Tóth wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a Proliant DL380 G5 server with a HP Smart Array P400 Controller 
>> which provide 2 logical drive.
>>
>> I used 2.6.18 debian kernel. After I upgraded to lenny I installed the  
>> 2.6.26 amd64 kernel package but the system hanged with the following  
>> error msg.
>>
>> I installed the the 2.6.29 kernel too from the lenny-backport but I got 
>> the same error msg. I tried to upgrade lilo, adding the lage-memory 
>> option but nothing.
>>
>> [    4.550063] checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (bad gzip magic 
>> numbers); looks like an initrd
>> [    4.690037] Freeing initrd memory: 6392k freed
>> [    7.920170] Waiting 12sec before mounting root device...
>> [   19.988876] RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
>> [   20.067490] List of all partitions:
>> [   20.142760] No filesystem could mount root, tried:
>> [   20.200934] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs 
>> on unknown-block(104,2)
>
> try booting with kernel options init=/bin/bash

This is not going to help because the kernel cannot even find the root
filesystem.

Sven


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