Kernel panic: Attepmted to kill init!

I finished installing Debian (took a break for a while) and now when I try to boot using the GRUB floopy the installer created, I get /sbin/init: 426: cannot open dev/console: No such file Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! What do I do now? Chad

Installing Debian on USB HDD

Hi, I just bought a USB harddrive and I want to install Debian on it. I have a base Debian installed on a miniCD, and when I boot to the Debian installer and I get to the partitioning part, my drive is not listed, so I can't partition my drive. I'm just starting out with Linux, so I have a ve