Package: install Version: debian-31r0a-i386-binary-1.iso Severity: critical
I attempted to install Sarge (2.6.8-2-686) today on a Dell Dimension 8400 desktop. Upon reboot after installation, there was a kernel panic with the following error messages: pivot_root: No such file or directory /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! Just before this, the messages indicate that the kernel has found the hard disk (Serial ATA Maxtor 6Y160M0): scsi0: ata_piix Using anticipatory io scheduler [drive info] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xFFA8 irq 15 and so on (I am typing this by hand, since the machine then crashed and there are no logs). By replacing "hda" with "sda" in the following line in /boot/grub/menu.lst, I was able to prevent the panic: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-686 root=/dev/hda6 ro The boot then failed when it tried to fsck the swap and remaining ext3 partitions until I made similar replacements of "hda" with "sda" in /etc/fstab. This allowed the boot process to finish, but then the kernel would not recognize the cdrom drive. This may be related to bugs #299478 and #285981. Other people have described this problem here: http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=1094 The same problem appears here: http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianInstallerBrokenThings without attribution or a bug reference. Everett Lipman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
