F7: VFS kernel panic on upgraded system

stan stanl at cox.net
Wed Jun 6 09:40:46 UTC 2007


On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:54:49 +0200
Alberto Ferrante <alberto_ferrante at yahoo.it> wrote:

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> Hi all,
> yesterday night I upgraded one of my PCs from FC6 to F7; the upgrade
> from DVD was smooth. The problems arrived after the reboot: I got a
> "VFS: cannot mount root filesystem" message. I checked the label of
> the / partition as well as the grub.conf and they seem to be OK. I
> also tried to create a new img file (booting from the rescue CD) but
> it does not work anyway. I have to say that I had an error message
> from mkinitrd that was related to a file not found (some dhcp4.conf
> file... Sorry but I do not have that PC here). I did not have time to
> look at it further, but I will do it at home tonight.
> 
> Anybody else experiencing this problem? Any idea on how to solve it?
> 
> Regards,
> 	Alberto
One possibility.
Check that the label in fstab matches the label in grub and on
partition.  




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