kernel panic after fresh install

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 12:37:34PM -0400, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
> Guys I am having a problem after a fresh installed of Xubuntu 10.10 on  
> my old server. I get a kernel panic, the 1st line of the message says:
>
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on  
> unknown-block(0,0)
>
> Here is a copy of the boot info script output, can someone tell me how I  
> might be able to get my system to bootup? I am able to boot into my  
> system and mount my root / filesystem.
>
>
>                 Boot Info Script 0.55    dated February 15th, 2010 
>
>
> ============================= Boot Info Summary:  
> ==============================
>
>  => Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same  
> drive in
>     partition #1 for (,msdos1)/boot/grub.

There is no drive number.  That's not valid.  (hd0,msdos1) would be
correct.

I saw a machine recently get completely confused and fail to boot because
a compact flash card was in a USB card reader and the BIOS declared
that hd0.

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