[NBLUG/talk] Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (0, 0)

[Kyle Rankin]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:49:06AM -0800, Robert Hayes wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 January 2009 19:37, William Tracy wrote:
> > Can you mount hda1 and hda2 from a live distro, to verify that neither
> > partition has been actually corrupted? It doesn't sound very likely
> > (hopefully!) but it's something else you could check.
> 
> Yes, I have mounted and examined both partitions, and they seem to be fine.
> (Other than I can't boot to them... ;) )
> 

In re-reading the error, it almost sounds like the initrd file is corrupt.
Does your system have more than one kernel available in the grub prompt? If
so what happens when you boot an alternative kernel?

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