Another Kernel Panic VFS

[Weskhan]

Hey everyone,

I know there are a lot of topics with this error, but none of them are 100% like mine. So I decided to make my own. I am running a dual-boot GRUB PC with Ubuntu 12 and Windows 7 currently and have been trying to replace Ubuntu with Linux Mint 14. My plan was to launch Linux Mint 14 via USB and then install it to my hard-drive by just overwriting the Ubuntu partition. I have tried installing Linux Mint 14 to a USB and running it from there using UNetBoot in Windows and Startup Disk Creator in Linux. Both give me the same error when Linux Mint tries to boot. Note that I get this error AFTER the little start-up Linux Mint image shows.

*Another note: UNetBoot always gives me the error "can not launch X:/bluhbluhbluh/autorun.inf" or something like that.

Error:

[...] Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS : Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(2,0)
[...] Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.5.0-17-generic #28-Ubuntu
[...] Call Trace:
[...] [<...>] panic+0xba/0x1c9
[...] [<...>] mount_block_root+0x1d6/0x287
[...] [<...>] mount_root+0x57/0x5b
[...] [<...>] prepare_namespace+0x16d/0x1a6
[...] [<...>] ? release_tgcred.isra.7+0x30/0x30
[...] [<...>] kernel_init+0x1c4/0x1c9
[...] [<...>] ? loglevel+0x31/0x31
[...] [<...>] kernel_threat_helper+0x4/0x10
[...] [<...>] ? start_kernel+0x3c4/0x3c4
[...] [<...>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13

sudo fdisk -l
Gives me this
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6fb54b6c

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 2459647 1228800 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 2459648 412615897 205078125 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 604659712 625139711 10240000 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 412616702 604659711 96021505 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 600467456 604659711 2096128 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 412616704 600465407 93924352 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdb: 2003 MB, 2003828736 bytes
62 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1018 cylinders, total 3913728 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000cb82b

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 62 3913191 1956565 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thank you

[Weskhan]

Bump, anybody?