When restoring an HVM ami from a snapshot, a kernel panic is encountered.
Issue
- On Amazon's ec2 platform, when restoring an HVM ami from a snapshot, the following kernel panic is encountered:
Kernel Panic - not syncing VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (8,1)
Environment
- Amazon EC2
- HVM ami
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