Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Mark Phillips
<mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Mark Phillips
>> <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>>> according to debian.org.
>>
>> Are the "root" and "kernel" lines of the regular and recovery lines
>> diffeent (other than the recovery kernel line having "single" added)?
>
> Yes, I looked in /boot/grub.cfg and the lines for the menu entries for both
> normal boot and recovery mode are identical except regular boot says quiet
> and recovery says single.
>
> Still can't get it to boot.
Please bottom-post.
Since you're using grub1, I hope that you mean "/boot/grub/menu.lst".
"grub.cfg" is grub2's menu configuration file and it's in
"/boot/grub/".
I'm having trouble understanding how you can mount "/" when booting
with "single" and cannot mount "/" when you boot without it since the
same initramfs is used for both (unless your "initrd" lines in
"menu.lst" are different in the regular and recovery cases).
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