I have a Dell Dimension 2400 I got at a yard sale. Has the typical 512MB Ram, 80GB Hard Drive, 2.4GHz Celeron and the integrated Intel video and audio. I decided to put Ubuntu 9.10. However I got a Kernal Panic while loading the live CD. It gets to the white flashing Ubuntu Loco. It freezes. The lights on the keyboard flash and it complains of a kernel panic.
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System:
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid; clean install; 32bit
When booting, I can choose 2 from 2 options (ignoring recovery mode):
- Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-22-generic
- Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-21-generic
(and then Windows Vista and Ubuntu 9.10 a couple of times) The newer version appeared with an update from Ubuntu a couple of days after installation. When booting from the first I get the following message:
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Kernal panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) When booting from the second, Ubuntu loads without a problem.
I've got the following system:
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I've been having problems with the system ever since I replaced the motherboard. Moving slow and just generally acting 'wonky.' Well the other day I reached my frustration limit and wiped the HDD. Up to this point the HDD had been in 2 partitions, one for the DELL diagnostics and one for the OS, XP Pro.
I decided that I wanted to set up the system in a dual-boot during the rebuild so I created a two partitions using the Windows install. Partition one is the DELL Diagnostic partition, partition 2 is the XP Pro partition and partition 3 is to be the Linux partition. All seemed to go well with the Windows install. I got the OS up and running and got all the updates done and drivers installed.
I only have the one HDD in the system so I was going to have to make this dual-boot off of one HDD.
I had previously, within the past week or two, downloaded the .iso and created the disk for FC11.
I went through the install process and successfully installed Linux on the 3rd partition, or so I thought. When I attempted to boot into Linux I got the Kernal Panic error.
My grub file as it exists now is:
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If I leave the file as is, I get the kernal panic error but the splash image works fine. If I try to change the 'splash image' and 'root' references from '(hd0,2),' then neither works.
I can boot into Windows XP from the setup as it is now.
I if I boot using my LoaS (FC 11 made at the same time as the images for the cds were downloaded) I can see the hdd and multiple partitions. There seems to be a 'boot' partion, the Linux OS partition, a swap partion, as well as the Dell and XP partions. Now I've tried changing the references in the grub file to reflect the different partitions, basically I've tried 2, 3, 4 and 5, everything but 0 (the dell diagnostics) and 1 (the XP Pro).
I've also re-wiped the HDD and started the whole process over from scratch, thinking maybe I'd hosed something up the first time, but being a firm believer in 'Always do what you've always done and you'll always get what you've always gotten,' and that one of the definitions of insanity it keep performing the same actions over and over and expect different results, I seem to be at impasse here.
Results from 'sfdisk -l'
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down to
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