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

[Diwaker Gupta <dgupta@cs.ucsd.edu>]

Horms wrote:
> 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

> > 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

Sorry, doesn't help. When I boot with the 2.6.8-1-686 kernel, here's the 
exact error it gives:

/sbin/init:46 cannot open dev/console no such file
kernel panic, attempted to kill init

I'm not sure about the line number, I think I saw 46 but when I mounted 
the initrd to a loopback device to check the contents, it didn't show 
much on line 46. There were references to dev/console on lines 426 and 
425 though.
--
Diwaker Gupta
Graduate Student, Computer Sc. and Engg.
University of California, San Diego
http://resolute.ucsd.edu/diwaker