On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 11:11:05AM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Hi, > > i'm unable to move my system from a 2.4.24 kernel to a 2.6 kernel. > I first had my root on LVM and thought it was because of that, that it > didn't work. > However, i've switched my root to a normal ext3 partition. To my > surprise it still doesn't work. > I then tried a standard Debian kernel which also doesn't work: > pivot_root: No such file or directory > /sbin/init: 431: Cannot open /dev/console: No such file > Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init I would guess perhaps that the initrd is not starting udev? (Don't use udev myself but it looks like you do, and if it wasn't working I'd expect to see this kind of thing.) I'd suggest that the technique of pressing return to get a shell when the initrd fires up and then executing the commands in linuxrc etc. by hand to see where it starts to go wrong might be useful here. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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