Kernel Panic after Gparted

bangerbros · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2012 Posts: 10

Hello !!!

I tried to increase my disk space accorded to my gentoo / partition with gparted, after this done, no way to boot anymore on my gentoo. Before I used Gparted, gentoo was working fine.
I check my partitions table, nothing seems to be weird. I Installed an Ubuntu, in order to see if my problem was link to lilo, but update-grub recognizes my gentoo and my Zenwalk, but kernel panic still there

Kernel panic :
"Please append a correct "root=" boot option
kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,9)
".
gentoo is on the partition sda8.

I don't how to fix this. Sorry for my english.

Please could you help me ?

Arkhelion · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:08 pm Post subject:

Hi,

Did you change your partition size with the disk online (mounted)? For a /home partition, I'd say it's "quite" safe using modern FS (ext4 for instance) but for /, I wouldn't dare try it.

Boot on a liveCD (SystemRescueCD or Gentoo liveCD for instance) then:

Jaglover · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:13 pm Post subject: Re: Kernel Panic after Gparted

bangerbros · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2012 Posts: 10

Thank you for your answers.

It seems, when i inscreased the partition space, gparted might have removed an another partition. So in my /etc/fstab the "/" partition was still on sda9 but Grub tells, gentoo was on sda8.
I fixed the problem by editing /etc/fstab and update-grub.

thank you