Not able to start the Ubuntu

Question

I upgraded my Ubuntu from 18.04 to 19.04, but when I'm starting the system, it isn't starting. Just a purple screen is showing up. When I tried recovery mode, it shows a black screen with the following message:

[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0, 0) ] - - -

It's not giving options to type anything.

Solution 1

Finally, I got the solution and now the system works fine.

1. Reboot the system by typing reboot command
2. Choose an Ubuntu recovery mode while startup
3. if a faulty disk is shown in error messages like /dev/sda1 or something, just run the command fsck /dev/sda1 -y, here /dev/sda1 is faulty disk in my system, you might have an error with some other disk. Now, your system will fix the disk and it will restart automatically, or you can manually restart once the process is finished.

Solution 2

@https://askubuntu.com/users/730868/neeraj-bhatt I think you should remove old linux kernels because your /boot drive is out of space.

Follow the steps as below :-

1) boot to grub and click on “Advanced options” 2) Select a previous kernel (should boot fine) 3) login and enter command 4) $ df (See if your /boot directory is 100% used) 5) Remove old linux kernels 6) $ sudo apt-get autoremove

Comments

[die_wolf]

@galoget the mentioned answers in that post aren't working for me.

[tanius]

Note: This only applies to users with installations using LVM or full disk encryption. Other installations don't have a separate /boot partition, so don't need to worry about this case. (source)