{"id":1118,"date":"2013-12-07T16:34:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T04:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2013-12-07T16:34:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T04:34:54","slug":"kernel-panic-fixed-on-mothers-laptop-ubuntu-13-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/kernel-panic-fixed-on-mothers-laptop-ubuntu-13-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Kernel panic fixed on mother&#8217;s laptop (Ubuntu 13.10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mother&#8217;s laptop started displaying an alarming message:<\/p>\n<p><code>(3.347276)  Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (0, 0)<\/code><\/p>\n<p>The good news is that this seemingly terminal problem has proved easy to fix (so far anyway \ud83d\ude09 ).<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Hold Down the Shift key when booting to see the GRUB menu displayed<\/li>\n<li>Press the Escape key to get to the menu<\/li>\n<li>Select a different kernel to boot into instead of the one that has been panicking<\/li>\n<li>Do whatever needs to be done as per <a href=\"http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?t=1751574&#038;p=12444063#post12444063\" target=\"_blank\">[SOLVED} kernel panic-not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown block(0,0)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In my case, I removed numerous kernels (Note &#8211; leave a couple behind including the two most recent)<br \/>\n<code>sudo apt-get remove linux-image ...<br \/>\nsudo apt-get autoremove<\/code><br \/>\nand was advised by the terminal to run<br \/>\n<code>sudo dpkg --configure -a<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mother&#8217;s laptop started displaying an alarming message: (3.347276) Kernel panic &#8211; not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (0, 0) The good news is that this seemingly terminal problem has proved easy to fix (so &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/kernel-panic-fixed-on-mothers-laptop-ubuntu-13-10\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}