just upgraded from FC4 to FC5: kernel panic

jfontain at free.fr jfontain at free.fr
Thu Mar 30 14:01:49 UTC 2006


Quoting Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com>:

> On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 15:44 +0200, jfontain at free.fr wrote:
> > After installation and reboot, I get (on my IBM X40):
> > ...
> > mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
> > ...
> >
> > and then errors mount /proc, /sys, and finally a kernel panic.
> >
> > I am using kernel-2.6.16-1.2080_FC5.i686
> >
> > Please help me: I would like to avoid reinstalling...
>
> Make sure your boot line (GRUB, etc) includes "root=/dev/XXX"
> that matches your installation.

Thanks! Thanks! Thanks! That was it. What can I do to thank you for helping so
quickly?


--
Jean-Luc




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