I'm trying to upgrade a Debian machine to kernel-image-2.6.9-1 from the Debian archives (as a prelude to being able to run the current lm-sensors package). However, when I try and boot into the new kernel, I get the same error message as in [1]:
pivot_root: No such file or directory /sbin/init: 424: cannot open dev/console: No such file Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! This error occurs with both 2.6.8 and 2.6.9 Debian kernels. As per Mike MacCana's reply at [2], the /initrd directory does exist on the root partition. The motherboard is a ASUS Nforce A7N8X. The harddrive with the root partition is a SATA drive running from the motherboard's Silicon Image SATA controller. It does seem to be identified by the kernel prior to the panic. Is there some config I need to upgrade? -Mary [1] http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2004/10/msg00442.html [2] http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2004/10/msg00509.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
