Re: 2.4.x to 2.6.y kernel

[Stephan Seitz <nur-ab-sal@gmx.de>]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 11:23:32AM +0100, michael wrote:
> On my box (2*Xeon, SATA HD), I've been running 2.4.27-1-686-smp and
> thought it's about time to move to 2.6 so I did a 
> sudo apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp
> and rebooted but now get a kernel panic with this kernel, along the
> lines of 
>
>   pivot_root: No such file or directory
>   /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file
>   Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempt to kill init!
>
> Any ideas? My grub menu.lst (below) uses initrd and I'm wondering if

Yes. Try using root=/dev/sda2. 2.6er kernels and newer 2.4er kernels
are using the SCSI devices for disc access, not the IDE devices.

Shade and sweet water!

	Stephan

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