Re: Kernel 2.6.8-2-686 panics
I had this problem too and solved it like this:
When booting (with lilo) I appended root=/dev/sda1 (my root device under
2.4 was hda1) and checked if the kernel was able to mount the root
device. After successfully mounting the root device I booted up a Kernel
2.4 and changed the /etc/fstab from /dev/hdx to /dev/sdx everywhere
(please make a boot disk and backup your old fstab before!!!).
Voila booting Kernel 2.6 worked.
David
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 08:04 +0100, Martin Smith wrote:
> Chris Phillips writes:
>
> > Hi Martin,
> >
> >
> >> I have installed kernel 2.6.8-2 686 on a newly
> >> installed sarge machine, P4 on
> >> an Asus P5P800, on startup the kernel panics saying
> >> /dev/console not found,
> >> however /dev/console exists, how can this situation
> >> be rectified.
> >
> > Have you just upgraded from a 2.4.27 to 2.6 kernel? Do
> > you have SATA disks? The change of SATA drivers from
> > the ide to SCSI layer caused similar problems.
>
> Yes the install is on a sata disk, it works fine with 2.4.27, is there some
> kind of reconfiguration I can do to get this up and running?
>
>
>
> --
> Martin Smith
>
>
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