On 1 June 2010 16:59, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 11:46 +0530, Jayakrishnan M wrote: >> Craig, >> >> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> <snip> >> > But when I booted I got an error - something like... >> > >> > kernel panic - VFS Error - can't mount filesystem hd(0,0) which should >> > be /boot >> > >> <snip> >> Please check the entries in /boot/grub/grub.conf and /etc/fstab. Since >> you did a yum update, the entries should be fine; but it is better to >> check those, just to be on the safer side. >> Can you please post them to the list so that others can give ideas? > ---- > OK - relevant portions > > #boot=/dev/sda > default=0 > timeout=5 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > hiddenmenu > > title Fedora (2.6.33.5-112.fc13.i686) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.5-112.fc13.i686 ro > root=UUID=7734afd9-2d2e-43fc-baa2-b8ea07cc98f7 rhgb quiet \ > SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=us > savedefault > boot > initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.5-112.fc13.i686.img > > title Fedora (2.6.32.11-99.fc12.i686) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32.11-99.fc12.i686 ro > root=UUID=7734afd9-2d2e-43fc-baa2-b8ea07cc98f7 rhgb quiet \ > SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=us \ > nomodeset rdblacklist=nouveau > initrd /initramfs-2.6.32.11-99.fc12.i686.img > savedefault > boot > > The F13 kernel doesn't boot - gets the error (this is the exact message) > > Kernel panic-not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(0,0) > > and /dev/sda1 (hd 0,0) is /boot and it is ext3 - nothing special and of > course it boots from the F12 kernel > > The F12 kernel boots - that is the only one I can use > > Craig A shot in the dark :-) Well that looks nearly sane from here, but I would move the initrd line in the F13 section to match how it is with F12 i.e before the boot and savedefault lines. If still no joy I would try re-generating initrd with dracut in /root and compare the two with lsinitrd.. ...dex -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
