On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 03:16:47PM -0700, Diwaker Gupta wrote:
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system
Note that this was with the linux26 option -- with the linux24 option, the install goes fine and the system boots okay. After that I installed the latest kernel-image-2.6.8 and it also failed to boot, so I'm guessing there is some issue with the Debian patches/config options to 2.6.8.
Thanks, this sounds suspiciously like yet another acpi bug. Could you take a look at bug 263420 and see if any of the information in there helps. In particular, can you see if either of the following boot parameters help.
acpi=off pci=noacpi
Sorry, doesn't help. When I boot with the 2.6.8-1-686 kernel, here's the exact error it gives:
/sbin/init:46 cannot open dev/console no such file kernel panic, attempted to kill init
I'm not sure about the line number, I think I saw 46 but when I mounted the initrd to a loopback device to check the contents, it didn't show much on line 46. There were references to dev/console on lines 426 and 425 though.
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Diwaker Gupta
Graduate Student, Computer Sc. and Engg.
University of California, San Diego
http://resolute.ucsd.edu/diwaker
