Re: 2.4.x to 2.6.y kernel

[Stephan Seitz]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 11:23:32AM +0100, michael wrote:

On my box (2*Xeon, SATA HD), I've been running 2.4.27-1-686-smp and

and rebooted but now get a kernel panic with this kernel, along the

  pivot_root: No such file or directory
  /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file
  Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempt to kill init!

Any ideas? My grub menu.lst (below) uses initrd and I'm wondering if

thought it's about time to move to 2.6 so I did a sudo apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp lines of

Yes. Try using root=/dev/sda2. 2.6er kernels and newer 2.4er kernels
are using the SCSI devices for disc access, not the IDE devices.

Shade and sweet water!

        Stephan

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