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shannonadams
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‎10-21-2009 07:13 AM

Kernel panic

I just installed vShpere 4.0 a few weeks ago. It was working fine until I shutdown the server for a few days. Now when I boot, it gives me: "[http://75.069279|http://75.069279] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (0,0)." The server just hangs. Of course, I had not setup backups yet. Is there a way to boot from the install DVD and recover from this? Fingers crossed...

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Troy_Clavell
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‎10-21-2009 07:16 AM

have a look at the KB article as well, it may be useful

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1004797

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shannonadams
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‎10-21-2009 07:44 AM

That did it - what a huge relief! It booted. If only I knew what it happened in the first place...

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Troy_Clavell
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‎10-21-2009 07:49 AM

glad to see you got it resolved

taken from the KB article:

The most common reason why this occurs is due to a misconfiguration of the boot parameters or a change in drivers which did not get updated correctly

 That did it - what a huge relief!  It booted.  If only I knew what it happened in the first place...

					
				
			
			
				
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
		

		
		
	

	
	


	
				
		
			
		
			
		
			
					
			
		
				
		
			
					
		
	
				
		
			
					
		
	
				
		
			
					
		
	
				
		
			
					
		
	
				
		
			
					
		
	
				
		
	
	


		

	

		

			

	
		
			
					
				
		
			
		
			
					
		
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