This one time, at band camp, Mary Gardiner wrote: >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!
These messages suggest that the initrd is borken, can you boot into the old kernel, and remove the 2.6.9 kernel (purge it even) and reinstall it? I've seen some recent kernel packages not upgrade within the same kernel version properly. Alternatively, mount the initrd image somewhere, and look to see if it's got things that look right in it, like /dev entries and the correct modules for your disks, and whatnot. If that's wrong then usually the easiest method to fix the initrd is to reinstall the kernel package and have it create the initrd from scratch based on the currently running kernel. (That all sounds much like a cop out answer, but that's the best I can do :-) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
