Kernel Panic on first boot

ultrakd001 · n00b Joined: 01 Jun 2014 Posts: 8

I finally managed to finish the installation process of Gentoo but on my first boot I got a kernel panic it said:
Kernel Panic not syncing: VFS Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) .It obviously can't mount the FS.
I suppose that I configured something wrong but what is it?

Adel Ahmed · Veteran Joined: 21 Sep 2012 Posts: 1523

hmm this will most probably be either an incorrect kernel config or an incorrect bootloader config

when this panic occurs, can you see your hard disk's partition information? could you post that output as well

Please post your bootloader configuration file

what is your rootfs type(file system) are you using LVM/software raid anything of that sort?

DONAHUE · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 5:00 pm Post subject:

boot the livecd/usb, mount the gentoo partitions, run

ultrakd001 · n00b Joined: 01 Jun 2014 Posts: 8

I figured it out the problem was in fstab.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 7:33 pm Post subject:

ultrakd001,

Don't be shy - share your learning experience so that others reading this thread can benefit.

Tell the problem and the solution.
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Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

ultrakd001 · n00b Joined: 01 Jun 2014 Posts: 8

I am sorry I didn't share it was because I didn't have time so I posted just that.
The problem seemed to be as I said in the fstab file. In the line about of the rootfs I had the dump field set at 1 and the fsck field at 2.
I changed the fifth field to 0 and it worked

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 8:21 am Post subject:

ultrakd001,

Thank you for contributing to Gentoo.

I think you did something else too. The error

ultrakd001 · n00b Joined: 01 Jun 2014 Posts: 8

That is true but when I changed I didn't get this message any more