Re: sarge problem
On Saturday 14 May 2005 18:39, Joerg Beyer wrote:
> Emmanuele Salvati wrote:
> > hi all,
> >
> > i'm trying to install this debian distribution on my toshiba laptop
> >
> >>http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/rc3/sarge-i3
> >>86-netinst.iso
> >
> > but at the first reboot it says:
> >
> > Segmentation fault
> > pivot_root: No such file or directory
> > /sbin/init: 431: cannot open dev/console: No such file
> > <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
> >
> > can somebody help me?
>
> are you using lilo? I got this error message, when I had lilo pointing
> to the wrong disk (I changed the disk from /dev/hdX to /dev/hdY). I had
> to boot from something else (a CD in my case) and chroot to the
> partition I want to boot, rerun lilo and everything went fine.
>
In my case, it was an SATA drive - so correctly addressed as /dev/sdaX - but
lilo was looking for /dev/hdaX. (I wasn't actually doing a Sarge install but
same problem).
--
derek
Reply to: