Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-25 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: > > Everything is back up and running. > > Gremlins.. > > Thanks for your help! I'm glad that it's working. You're welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-24 Thread Mark Phillips
I ran a shutdown -h now from recovery mode, and now the system boots into normal mode without errors. I misspoke - I have grub2. /boot/grub/grub.cfg: root@hammerhead:/home/mark# cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg # # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE # # It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates #

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-24 Thread Mark Phillips
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:34 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Mark Phillips > wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Tom H wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Mark Phillips > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade this morning on an old

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-24 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:54 AM, 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 g

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 09:09:03PM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: >Or, do you mean > >update−initramfs -u This was the command I was thinking of. Basically, "unable to mount root fs" usually means that the kernel (in conjunction with the initramfs) can't find your root file system. If you'r

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-23 Thread Mark Phillips
Or, do you mean *update-initramfs -u * *Mark * On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: > 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 scre

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-23 Thread Mark Phillips
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-

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-23 Thread Mark Phillips
Tom, Yes, I looked in /boot/grub.cfg and the lines for the menu entries for both normal boot and recovery mode are identical except regular boot says quiet and recovery says single. Still can't get it to boot. Mark On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:54

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-23 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:54 AM, 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 updat

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-23 Thread Darac Marjal
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)

Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-22 Thread Mark Phillips
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