On 03/10/2013 07:40 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:29:56 -0400 > Gerry Reno wrote: > >> Did you try booting a rescue disk and reinstalling the bootloader? > I booted the "Centos 6.4 minimal iso", told it to "upgrade an existing > installation", and to install the bootloader. About all that it appeared to do > was install the bootloader. Unfortunately, the machine still didn't boot. > > The bootloader seems to be fine -- grub itself boots up. I get a kernel panic > after that, when you normally see the messages about unpacking vmlinuz and so > on. I just get a blank black screen with a flashing cursor (or the rhgb > screen with the spinning doodad, depending on the grub setting) and then a > kernel panic. > It seems like maybe it cannot find the root filesystem. Kernel panics just like this when it cannot find it. .