[mythtv-users] Minimyth 0.21.0-42 kernel panic

Jeppe N. Madsen jeppe at ingolfs.dk
Sat Mar 15 11:03:14 UTC 2008


On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, Paul Woodward wrote:

>  Hi Guys,
>  
>  I've just updated my minimyth install to the latest version and I
>  get this message on PXE bootup:
>  
>  kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
>  unknown-block(1,0)
>  
>  Here's my pxelinux.cfg/default file (old working config commented
>  out):
>  
>  DEFAULT minimyth-ram
>    LABEL minimyth-ram
>  #KERNEL minimyth-0.20.2-30/kernel
>     KERNEL minimyth-0.21.0-42/kernel
>  #APPEND ro root=/dev/ram0 initrd=minimyth-0.20.2-30/rootfs
>  ramdisk_blocksize=4096 ramdisk=640000x MM_DEBUG=yes
>  APPEND ro root=/dev/ram0 initrd=minimyth-0.21.0-42/rootfs
>  ramdisk_blocksize=4096 ramdisk=640000x MM_DEBUG=yes
>  
>  Any ideas?

This should probably go to the minimyth forums, but....

RTFM :-) It seems your kernel parameters are wrong (they got renamed
in newer kernel version). Here's mine:

APPEND ro root=/dev/ram0 initrd=minimyth-0.21.0-42/rootfs  ramdisk_size=96000 MM_DHCP_HOST_NAME=frontend

/Jeppe



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