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Old 09-07-2015, 05:12 PM   #1
Arty Ziff
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CentOS v.5 Crash During Update - I'm Lost


I WAS updating system software through the desktop GUI, and experienced a power outage after the download of packages and during the actual instal phase.

Powering up, I get:

Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
Pod: 1, comm: swapped Not tainted 2.6.32-573.3.1.e16.I686 #1

And then 7 rows of "Call Trace" data.

I decided to pop the DVD in and reboot, dut while the drive seemed to be doing something, the screen remained black as the drive wheeered away.

I'd much like to recover rather than rebuild.

Bad disc? Bad drive?

Any thoughts? At this level I'm basically a nube.

- Thanks!

Last edited by Arty Ziff; 09-07-2015 at 05:13 PM.
 
Old 09-07-2015, 05:54 PM   #2
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Sorry, I'm new at this...

Escaped to the grub menu and selected an older kernel.

Deleted corrupted kernel, upgraded from old kernel to new kernel...

Last edited by Arty Ziff; 09-07-2015 at 06:48 PM.
 
  


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