Turned on today and got "KERNEL PANIC!"

[MoonBrain]

Hello,
After a few months of running Zorin 18.1 (clean install), I have the following message displayed at power on:

KERNEL PANIC!
Please reboot your computer.
VFS: Unable to mount FS on unknown-block(0,0)

Any suggestions on how to resolve this?

Thanks!@

[Forpli]

In grub menu select Advanced options for Zorin and then select an older kernel (not a recovery kernel) to boot from.
If your grub isn't displayed at boot, press continuosly esc, tab or left shift key (the key depends on your hardware) to show the grub menu.

Also take a look at this thread:

Kernel 7.0.0-28 - Kernel Panic or graphics issues notice

Mod Edit: I am linking directly at the outset of those post to an important notice from the ZorinGroup in regards to this issue, in this pinned thread: Now, back to the original beginning: I asked if the 7.0.0-28 generic kernel is safe to use on ubuntu 24.04 systems and here is what i got. Using Linux kernel 7.0.0-28-generic on Ubuntu 24.04 is not recommended right now. The Ubuntu Kernel Team flagged this specific release (7.0.0-28.28) for an AMD GPU regression. Additionally, users are re…

[easeltine]

Moon, it happened to me as well. Just use that Advanced Options they are talking about, and don't go updating to 7, or fooling around trying to fix Grub.