Darac,It is a "normal" ext2 file system. A single IDE drive in an old Dell workstation (Optiplex GX260). It has been running for many years with successive kernels.
Before I screw things up any more, is this what you are recommending that I run from recovery mode?
#dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.32-5-686
Thanks,
Mark
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 08:54:55PM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:> according to [1]debian.org.
> I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade this morning on an old server
> (Debian Squeeze) and the system won't boot now. I get the error
>
> kernel panic not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown
> -block(0,0)
>
> One of the updates was to kernel 2.6.32-5-686. I can boot in to safe mode
> with this kernel, and the upgrade wiped out the older version of the
> kernel.
>
> I have googled for possible solutions, but nothing helpful is popping up.
> I am also running grub, and not grub2, but that is OK for this kernel
>I would suggest that your first port of call is to update the initramfs.
> Any suggestions on how to proceed?
You haven't told us what your root filesystem is, though. If it's a
common filesystem on a regular partition, then you should be fine. But
if you've got RAID or LVM or anything exotic going on, then try adding
"rootdelay=30" to the kernel commandline, too.