F 13 installation trouble

[Ankur Sinha]

On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 10:00 +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I did a fresh text based install on my system today.
> 
> On boot, I get:
> 
> "Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(0,0)"
> 
> Can you folks please tell me how to get around this?  I googled up and
> it looks like a grub issue or something, but I haven't been able to
> correct it yet from the posts[1]. They speak of lilo, or of compiling
> the kernel with modules or something. I'm installing from a Fedora 13
> dvd, so I can't quite compile myself a kernel.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> regards,
> Ankur
> 
> [1]
> > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/kernel-panic-not-syncing-356086/
> 
> [2]
> > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/kernel-panic-not-syncing-vfs-unable-to-mount-root-fs-on-unknown-block-361735/
> 
> [3]
> > http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/gentoo-linux-help/44588-i-get-kernel-panic-not-syncing-vfs-while-booting.html


hey,

Beserk, but re-installing solved it :$

regards,
Ankur