AlanRick
May 21st, 2009, 04:12 PM
Jaunty was giving me problems so I formated the unix partition and did a fresh 8.10 install since that's what I'd used earlier.
Install worked but when I boot and select ubuntu in grup I get the message
[0.776111]kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0).
The old windows xp boot still boots from grub okay.
Somewhere I read that the error is caused when the grub menu reads the wrong root. So I edited menu.lst and added the line
root hda(0,6)
below the ubuntu entry (first menu item).
This is because gparted is showing the ubuntu partition as hda7.
It still does not work. And the same happens when I do an 8.04 install.
Any ideas?
Install worked but when I boot and select ubuntu in grup I get the message
[0.776111]kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0).
The old windows xp boot still boots from grub okay.
Somewhere I read that the error is caused when the grub menu reads the wrong root. So I edited menu.lst and added the line
root hda(0,6)
below the ubuntu entry (first menu item).
This is because gparted is showing the ubuntu partition as hda7.
It still does not work. And the same happens when I do an 8.04 install.
Any ideas?