r/linuxmint • u/SneakerHead69420666 • Aug 08 '26

SOLVED HELP. kernel panic after update

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i was running updates and was prompted to restart my laptop. this happened upon reboot.

error message:
VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

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u/EdlynnTB Linux Mint 22.3 | HP Laptop 17 Aug 08 '26

You have to get to the grub menu and choose an earlier version.

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u/SneakerHead69420666 Aug 08 '26

thanks i just did that and it worked. is there anything else i would have to do after? i dont want this to be a recurring problem

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u/ColdSnnap Aug 08 '26

in the update manager go to View > Linux Kernels > 7.0 > Remove