Hi,
WARNING: I have been a Linux user for some years now, but I just got
into Debian a week ago, so I feel particularly dangerous to my own
system - please look out for idiocies I committed being overconfident in
my GNU/Linux competence.
So, I installed Debian 3.1 testing with kernel 2.6, and after a while
went to /etc/apt/source.list and changed testing to unstable. Then I ran
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, which went fine. Now I was running
kernel 2.6.7.
I was aware of security issues with the 2.6.7 kernels (at least on
Fedora, which is where I came from), so I decided to upgrade to 2.6.10.
I did
apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.10-1-k7
(yes, I have athlon XP)
I rebooted and I got a panic at boot, looking like
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ide1 at 0x170-1x177, 0x376 on irq 15
ERROR: Removing 'pdc202xx_new': Device or resource busy
[snip ~20 similiar errors]
ERROR: Removing 'via82cxxx': Device or resource busy
pivot_root: No such file or directory
/sbin/init: 431 cannot open dev/console: No such file
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attepted to kill init!
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