Breezy iBook install fails to boot (kernel panic - unable to mount root)

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 07:37:54PM -0400, Chris wrote:
> After playing around with the Live CD I just tried installing the Breezy 
> preview on my iBook.  The install went fine but at reboot I get the old 
> "Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 
> unknown-block(0,0)".
> 
> Unfortunately I can't actually see what is going wrong there.  My 
> yaboot.conf looks good and all the kernel images are there (default 
> install).  The only thing I can think of is that my root is XFS (problem?).

Known bug, but unfortunately one we didn't have time to fix:

  https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14485

I'm afraid you'll have to use a non-XFS filesystem for at least /boot
for now.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]