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What am I missing in the "end Kernel panic" one?
failed to mount root filesystem on unknown-block(0,0)
means the kernel started, loaded builtin drivers and drivers from the initrd, looked for the system partition to continue starting up and couldn't find it.Maybe you removed a disk and
/dev/sdb
became/dev/sda
or maybe you forgot to add nvme SSD support and the kernel can't read/dev/nvme0n1p1
.Or your disk let out the magic smoke and isn't detected any more.