Darac, It is a "normal" ext2 file system. A single IDE drive in an old Dell workstation (Optiplex GX260). It has been running for many years with successive kernels.
Before I screw things up any more, is this what you are recommending that I run from recovery mode? #dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 Thanks, Mark On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk>wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 08:54:55PM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: > > I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade this morning on an old server > > (Debian Squeeze) and the system won't boot now. I get the error > > > > kernel panic not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown > > -block(0,0) > > > > One of the updates was to kernel 2.6.32-5-686. I can boot in to safe > mode > > with this kernel, and the upgrade wiped out the older version of the > > kernel. > > > > I have googled for possible solutions, but nothing helpful is popping > up. > > I am also running grub, and not grub2, but that is OK for this kernel > > according to [1]debian.org. > > > > Any suggestions on how to proceed? > > I would suggest that your first port of call is to update the initramfs. > You haven't told us what your root filesystem is, though. If it's a > common filesystem on a regular partition, then you should be fine. But > if you've got RAID or LVM or anything exotic going on, then try adding > "rootdelay=30" to the kernel commandline, too. > >
