[SOLVED] Kernel Panic: unable to mount root filesystem...
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I am using GRUB bootloader. I can boot into windows fine. But booting into linux gives me the error "kernel panic: unable to mount root fs on unknown block(0,0)
I got LILO to load linux fine but GRUB always gives me this error regardless of the linux OS for this particular computer.
Can you please paste the output of grub.conf or grub.cfg file (depends on the OS in use) here. It appears that the grub has got a wrong entry for root partition.
As you said you are able to boot in using LILO can you please paste the out of df -h as well as mount command here.
Sorry, I am not sure where to find this file.
I can run windows 98 from the hard drive and linux OSes from the cds.
For more info:
I have two hard drives(sda and sdb) sda hard drive has two partitions ext2 and fat32.
Last edited by Firefox54; 05-27-2011 at 04:50 PM.
Reason: more info provided
right now I am running the computer with puppy live cd because win 98 doesn't see my ext2 partition. I am trying to boot legacy OS from the hard drive.
In puppy, in /mnt/sda2/boot/grub/ I don't see the grub.conf file or the grub.cfg . I see the menu.1st file as well as a lot of stage(fat_stage1_5, stage1, ufs2_stage1_5 etc.) files
Your problem seems to be that you have your Linux on sda2 while Grub tries to boot from sda1. Open the menu.lst file you found with a text editor, search for the entry for your Linux distro and change the root (hd0,0) to root (hd0,1), then save the file and reboot.
Unity is not an OS, but a desktop environment that runs on top of Ubuntu. And if this really is a machine from the Windows 98 era then I doubt that it will run Ubuntu with Unity.
If you still want your issue solved then please post the menu.lst file.
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