evanlong
October 11th, 2012, 05:11 AM
I clicked the "Upgrade to 12.04" button in the upgrade manager, and the installation stalled at about 80% (2 hours to go), right in the middle of the machine installing some MS font-related files. The two things I noticed from this point were that I had no options to stop or retry the upgrading process, and some of the windows I was using had no text in them, only vertical rectangle characters.
Upon restarting the computer, I got this:
error: no module specified.
error: no suitable mode found.
error: unknown command 'terminal'.
[ 1.205753] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
[ 1.205809] Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.2.0-31 generic #50-Ubuntu
[ 1.205853] Call Trace:
[ 1.205902] [<c155f691>] ? printk+0x2d/0x2f
[ 1.205946] [<c155f55f>] panic+0x5c/0x161
[ 1.205992] [<c1830b59>] mount_block_root+0xb9/0x14c
[ 1.206040] [<c1140dac>] ? sys_mknod+0x2c/0x30
[ 1.206083] [<c1830d64>] mount_root+0x59/0x5f
[ 1.206127] [<c1830eb8>] prepare_namespace+0x14e/0x192
[ 1.206174] [<c1131a05>] ? sys_access+0x25/0x30
[ 1.206218] [<c18308cd>] kernel_init+0x156/0x15b
[ 1.206262] [<c1830777>] ? start_kernel+0x353/0x353
[ 1.206307] [<c157befe>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
That's it, and a blinking cursor. I can boot from a live CD; is there a way I can make the system fix the installation?
Upon restarting the computer, I got this:
error: no module specified.
error: no suitable mode found.
error: unknown command 'terminal'.
[ 1.205753] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
[ 1.205809] Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.2.0-31 generic #50-Ubuntu
[ 1.205853] Call Trace:
[ 1.205902] [<c155f691>] ? printk+0x2d/0x2f
[ 1.205946] [<c155f55f>] panic+0x5c/0x161
[ 1.205992] [<c1830b59>] mount_block_root+0xb9/0x14c
[ 1.206040] [<c1140dac>] ? sys_mknod+0x2c/0x30
[ 1.206083] [<c1830d64>] mount_root+0x59/0x5f
[ 1.206127] [<c1830eb8>] prepare_namespace+0x14e/0x192
[ 1.206174] [<c1131a05>] ? sys_access+0x25/0x30
[ 1.206218] [<c18308cd>] kernel_init+0x156/0x15b
[ 1.206262] [<c1830777>] ? start_kernel+0x353/0x353
[ 1.206307] [<c157befe>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
That's it, and a blinking cursor. I can boot from a live CD; is there a way I can make the system fix the installation?