On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 12:51 +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: > 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 > >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 > >and rebooted but now get a kernel panic with this kernel, along the > >lines of > > > > 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 > > 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.
Right, that seems to make sense and amending root to /dev/sda2 on the Grub boot menu does indeed get me further. However, it still looks for hdeX (for various X) for fsck and mount, and all fail... does this mean I have to edit /etc/fstab? but in that case I won't be able to switch from 2.4.x to 2.6.y Cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
