kernel panic after fresh install

[Rajinder Yadav]

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 5:01 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> | From: Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
>
> | 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)
>
> I think this means that the kernel does not know where the root
> filesystem is.
>
> | =========================== sda1/boot/grub/grub.cfg:
> | ===========================
>
> | ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
> | menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.35-22-generic' --class ubuntu --class
> | gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
> |       recordfail
> |       insmod part_msdos
> |       insmod ext2
> |       set root='(hd0,msdos1)'
> |       search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set
> |       54f645ad-c340-4618-9657-39ceade647a7
> |       linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic
> | root=UUID=54f645ad-c340-4618-9657-39ceade647a7 ro   quiet splash
> |       initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-22-generic
> | }
>
> I assume that various lines are broken by your MUA and are fine on
> your disk.  Do check.
>
> I wonder if this would work:
>        linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic root=/dev/sda1 ro
> (I replaced UUID with a device name.  I got rid of "quiet" and
> "splash" because that should put more about the boot process on the
> screen.)
>
> Also: you can experiment by typing commands to grub during booting.
> Well, maybe.  The 10.10 grub won't listen to me on the one system I've
> tried it on.
> --

i tried that but eventually gave up on ubuntu for my older box, i
decided to install debian server only, no X, no window manager.
everything works great.

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Kubuntu x86_64 10.10 | KDE 4.5.1
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