Hi, thanks for your bugreport.
1. do you use initrd ? if yes, 2.1 can you send me a tar of the directory /etc/mkinitrd ? 2.2 does the CDDEV definition in bootcdwrite.conf start with CDDEV="auto ? Regards Bernd > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Ristroph [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sonntag, 27. März 2005 03:48 > To: Debian Bug Tracking System > Subject: Bug#301598: bootcd: cd cannot boot -- /sbin/init > cannot open dev/console > > > Package: bootcd > Version: 2.47 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > > Note that I have previously successfully created working > CDs using bootcd on this installation; the following started > happening after an apt-get upgrade a couple of weeks ago. > > When the created ISO is booted, it freezes up, and these > are the last messages on the screen: > > pivot_root: No such file or directory > /sbin/init: 426: cannot open dev/console: No such file > Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! > > I have the kernel and initrd set correctly in bootcdwrite.conf. > > Let me know if I can help by sending you my bootcdwrite.conf > file or the created ISO or parts of it. > > Thanks in advance for any attention you can give this, and thanks > for writing bootcd -- I have found it to be an extremely > useful utility. > > --Rob Ristroph > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 3.1 > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-386 > Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) > > Versions of packages bootcd depends on: > ii bootcd-i386 2.47 bootcd extension > to create images > ii cpio 2.5-1.2 GNU cpio -- a > program to manage ar > ii dosfstools 2.10-1 Utilities to > create and check MS-D > ii fdutils 5.4-20040228-1 Linux floppy utilities > ii file 4.12-1 Determines file > type using "magic" > ii mkisofs 4:2.01+01a01-2 Creates ISO-9660 > CD-ROM filesystem > ii realpath 1.9.16 Return the > canonicalized absolute > > -- no debconf information > >
