On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 07:44:23AM +0000, Aurelio Turco wrote:
> Dear debian-user,
>
> I am trying to upgrade the kernel from 2.4 to 2.6.
> I installed the kernel-image-2.6-686 package (which depends on
> kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686), but it failed to boot,
> with messages as follows:
[..]
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes: override with idebus=xx
> ide0: I/O resource 0x1F0-0x1F7 not free.
> ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe
> ...
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> pivot_root: No such file or directory
> /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file
hotplug/udev issue? ^^^^^^^^^^^
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
>
>
> I tried "mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-3-686 2.6.8-3-686"
> but got the same messages.
>
> I tried editing the boot option "root=/dev/hda5" to "root=/dev/sda5"
> but got the same messages again.
>
> I tried asking on debian-kernel but got no reply.
>
> The relevant grub menu.lst paragraphs are:
>
> title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-3-686
> root (hd0,4)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-3-686 root=/dev/hda5 ro
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-3-686
> savedefault
> boot
>
> title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-3-686
> root (hd0,4)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-3-686 root=/dev/hda5 ro
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-3-686
> savedefault
> boot
>
> rdev /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-3-686 : Root device /dev/cciss/c0d0p3
> rdev /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-3-686 : Root device /dev/hda1
What's this --> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Any help would be much appreciated.
It boots with the 2.4.27 kernel?
Check out the error message:
/sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file
In fact pasting "/sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file"
into google brings up many hits!!
--
Chris.
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