More on unable to boot

[Andy Jarvis]

No, I haven't touched the file since it was updated by the Synaptic
update.

If you can tell me what needs to go in there, I will gladly add it!

Regards,
AndyJ

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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:17:57 -0700
From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com>
Subject: Re: More on unable to boot
To: Ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Message-ID: <20041013181757.GK5960 at alcor.net>
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On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 08:31:16PM +0300, Andy Jarvis wrote:

> I ran the recovery boot option and found the additional lines shown 
> below preceeding the Kernel Panic message:
>  
> VFS: Cannot open root device "hda5" or unknown-block (0,0) Please 
> append a correct "root=" boot option
>  
> For completeness, the section of my Grub menu.lst normally invoked and

> which first resulted in this problem reads:
>  
> root (hd0,4)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-3-k7 root=/dev/hda5 ro quiet splash 
> savedefault boot

The initrd command is missing.  Did you edit this file by hand?

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 - mdz