Bug#278720: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686: Fails to boot on Dell PowerEdge server

[Horms <horms@debian.org>]

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
> 
> 
> The prebuilt kernel image fails to boot on our Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers.
> The error we get is /dev/console not found and init failed.
> 
> Infact, I tried a fresh install using the debian-installer CD, and
> things went fine till the partition step, where the installer aborted
> saying:
> 
> No partitionable media found. Please check that a hard disk is attached
> to this machine.
> 
> 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

-- 
Horms