Kernel panic not syncing error on ubuntu
by admin on May.30, 2010, under RHEL5, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 9.10, ubuntu 10.04, ubuntu 7.10, ubuntu 8.04, ubuntu 8.10, ubuntu 9.04
kernel panic : not syncing; VFS; Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (0,0)
Try the Following steps for solving the issue
Boot from ubuntu live cd
mkdir /mnt/linux
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/linux —-> sda1 is my system root partition
chroot /mnt/linux /bin/bash
mount -t proc /proc /proc
change source list into Intrepid Ibex.
apt-get install initrd-tools
apt-get remove linux-image-2.6.27-9-generic
it will remove 2.6.27-9 and install linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic
