Doug Jolley wrote: > Hi -- > > I'm really embarrassed that I can't figure this out. Anyway, I just did > a system upgrade and now the system won't boot. The error message I'm > getting is: > > >>>>> > No filesystem could mount root, tried: > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS Unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(0,0) > <<<<< > > I'm using the Grub bootloader and in non-Grub speak my disk structure is > hda1=/boot, hda3=/, and hda2=swap. So, in Grub speak, I would think > that would put / on (0,2) and /boot on (0,0). I know that I'm not as > familiar with Grub as I should be. I'm one of the die-hards that's just > beginning to use it and ween myself from LILO. I also know that there > are some changes in the works involving initrd, etc. and I suspect that > that's part of my problem. I wasn't able to turn up a good explanation > on Google in a reasonable period; so, I decided to post here. Thanks > for any input. > > ... doug > >
When you update the Archlinux kernel to 2.6.18, make sure that you changed the initrd setting in your bootloader (/boot/grub/menu.lst or /etc/lilo.conf). The filename is kernel26.img instead of initrd26.img for kernel26 and kernel26beyond.img for kernel26beyond. For troubleshooting and advanced setup, see http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mkinitcpio Copyright (c) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006 _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
