Re: kernel problems
Well, never mind, I solved it.
What was wrong was that the /boot/initrd.img symlink didnt get updated.
Why is that? Should I file a bug against this package?
Oli
Þann 2006-06-12, 16:28:12 (+0000) skrifaði Olafur Jens Sigurdsson:
> Hi list
>
> I am having problems booting into my 2.6.16-2-486 kernel, it stops at
> some error messages the look like the following (this is pasted from
> another web page where someone had a similar problem and didnt get any
> answeres, it is edited to fit my case).
>
> modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.6.16-2-486/modules.dep
> (No such file or directory)
> modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.6.16-2-486/modules.dep
> (No such file or directory)
> pivot_root: No such file or directory
> /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
>
> I can boot fine into my backup kernel 2.6.12 which would imply that
> everything is ok outside the kernel but I allso tried to install the
> 686 version of the same kernel and got the same error messages (except
> 686 instead of 486 were in the pathname).
>
> I installed the kernel with apt-get install linux-image-2.6.16-2-486
> and have updated all the packages the kernel depends on.
>
> Please tell me how I can get this kernel to work.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Oli
>
>
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