Unable to boot the 3.1.0 spins of the kernel

[Josh Boyer]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Paul Johnson
<paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Not sure what I've missed here, but I'm unable to load my machine
> using any of the 3.1.0 flavours of the kernel. I can get (I think)
> 3.0.0-9 to boot no problems.
>
> When I try the 3.1.0 spins, I get a kernel panic soon after booting
>
> kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
> Pid1:,comm: swapper Not tainted 3,1,0-0.fc10.git0.1.fc17.x86_64
>
> Any way to fix this?

Make sure you have an initrd line for that kernel in whatever grub
configuration file your machine is using.  There have been a number of
cases where the initrd line was missing, which will cause that message
on boot.

josh