Kernel Panic! I needed to reinstall mint 9, what a pain....

[spirit469]

I dual boot XP and Mint 9 on an Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop, and for some reason yesterday whenever I tried to boot into Mint 9 it always gave me this message

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.694787 kernel panic-not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown wn-block (0,0)

I only installed mint just last week, so there weren't that many files and applications to lose, but if this had happened later on it would have been very disheartening. Does anyone know why it happened? Does anyone know how to fix it without losing data and desktop settings? If not is it possible for this to be fixed in a future update for Mint 9? I believe other people have had problems with this type of error on Ubuntu 10.04, so could it perhaps be related to that, since many of mint's updates are based upon those of Ubuntu?

Anyway, if anyone could help that would be appreciated greatly.

[oobetimer]

Key-sentence is #GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... ue#p312060

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... ue#p310727

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... ue#p303407

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2#grub (/etc/default/grub)

[spirit469]

Ok, could you be a little more specific? I apologize but for me, this does not help that much....

[oobetimer]

Ok, could you be a little more specific? I apologize but for me, this does not help that much....

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... ue#p312060