Or, do you mean *update-initramfs -u
* *Mark * On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Mark Phillips <m...@phillipsmarketing.biz>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 screw things up any more, is this what you are recommending that > I run from recovery mode? > > #dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 > > Thanks, > > Mark > > > > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk>wrote: > >> 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) >> > >> > One of the updates was to kernel 2.6.32-5-686. I can boot in to safe >> mode >> > with this kernel, and the upgrade wiped out the older version of the >> > kernel. >> > >> > I have googled for possible solutions, but nothing helpful is >> popping up. >> > I am also running grub, and not grub2, but that is OK for this kernel >> > according to [1]debian.org. >> > >> > Any suggestions on how to proceed? >> >> I would suggest that your first port of call is to update the initramfs. >> You haven't told us what your root filesystem is, though. If it's a >> common filesystem on a regular partition, then you should be fine. But >> if you've got RAID or LVM or anything exotic going on, then try adding >> "rootdelay=30" to the kernel commandline, too. >> >> >
