kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686 fails to boot
Dear debian-kernel,
I am trying to upgrade the kernel from 2.4 to 2.6.
I installed the kernel-image-2.6-686 package (which depends on
kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686), but it failed to boot,
with messages as follows:
...
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-3-686 root=/dev/hda5 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-3-686
...
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (ungzip failed); looks like an
initrd
...
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
...
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192k size 1024 blocksize
...
RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 4528 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk...done.
VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly.
...
initrd-tools: 0.1.81.1
vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6
SCSI subsystem initialized
...
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes: override with idebus=xx
ide0: I/O resource 0x1F0-0x1F7 not free.
ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe
...
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
pivot_root: No such file or directory
/sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
I tried "mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-3-686 2.6.8-3-686"
but got the same messages.
I tried editing the boot option "root=/dev/hda5" to "root=/dev/sda5"
but got the same messages again.
The relevant grub menu.lst paragraphs are:
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-3-686
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-3-686 root=/dev/hda5 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-3-686
savedefault
boot
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-3-686
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-3-686 root=/dev/hda5 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-3-686
savedefault
boot
rdev /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-3-686 : Root device /dev/cciss/c0d0p3
rdev /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-3-686 : Root device /dev/hda1
Any help would be much appreciated,
Cheers,
Aurelio.
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