Bug#337293: More clues?

[Ken Harris <kengruven@gmail.com>]

Hi.  I got exactly the same error message when trying to boot
linux-image-2.6.14-1-k7, and have a somewhat different system.

I installed it with apt-get under 2.6.12 (previous
linux-image-2.6-k7).  The installation seems to go fine:

--8<--
Setting up linux-image-2.6.14-1-k7 (2.6.14-2) ...
Using /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk.
Full list of probed ramdisk generating tools : /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub .
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.list file... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst .
Searching for splash image... none found, skipping...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-1-k7
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-k7
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done


Setting up linux-image-2.6-k7 (2.6.14-2) ...
--8<--

I do have a /dev/.static/dev/console device file.

My fstab looks like this (non-comment lines):

--8<--
/dev/hda2       /       xfs     defaults                        0       1
/dev/hda1       none    swap    defaults                        0       2
proc            /proc   proc    defaults                        0       0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0      /media/cdrom0   hfsplus,udf,iso9660    
defaults,ro,user,noauto 0       0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom1      /media/cdrom1   hfsplus,udf,iso9660    
defaults,ro,user,noauto 0       0
--8<--

And I have no aic7xxx SCSI controller, so that's probably not it.  :-)
 (I have a SCSI card, but not that one, and I have no disks on it
currently -- my only disk right now is plain old IDE.)

I'll try some of the other things you suggested later (when I reboot).
 I can see about dumping some relevant files in a public place, too.


- Ken