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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">I have Centos 3.3 installed on a vmware virtual machine on a AMD Opteron processor. I upgraded the kernel to version 2.4.21-27.0.2.EL, and now when I boot the system I get the following message:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Cannot open root device "LABEL=/"</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">The server boots fine with kernel-2.4.21-20. I've change the root=LABEL=/ to use the /dev/sda2, and it did not work.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Does anyone has any ideas what causes the system not to boot?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Thanks. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Verdana">Roberto DaSilva</FONT>
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