just upgraded from FC4 to FC5: kernel panic

Gary Thomas gary at mlbassoc.com
Thu Mar 30 13:49:00 UTC 2006


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.

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