When restoring an HVM ami from a snapshot, a kernel panic is encountered.

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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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