Dual boot on Dell X300

[Daniel Devost <devost@isc.astro.cornell.edu>]

Hi,

	I have a Dell X300 and I want to dual boot between Sarge and Etch. I 
have two drives, /dev/hda that holds Etch (/dev/hda1) and /dev/sda that 
holds Sarge (/dev/sda1). Both drives have swap space and grub and fstab 
have the correct entries. Grub is installed on the MBR of /dev/hda and 
the menu.lst resides in /boot/grub/.

Etch boots fine but Sarge terminates with:

pivot_root: No such file or directory
/sbin/init: 432:cannot open dev/console: No such file
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

/dev/hda is the regular drive of the laptop while /dev/sda is a drive 
mounted in the cdrom bay. Once etch is booted, I can mount /dev/sda1 and 
read/write to it.

Not sure what is going on.

Thanks in advance,

Daniel Devost

menu.lst:

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-2-386
root            (hd1,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/sda1 ro
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-386
savedefault
boot

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-2-386 (recovery mode)
root            (hd1,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/sda1 ro single
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-386
savedefault
boot

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title           Other operating systems:
root


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing
# linux installation on /dev/hda1.
title           Debian GNU/Linux (testing/unstable) (on /dev/hda1)
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-486 root=/dev/hda1
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-1-486
savedefault
boot


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing
# linux installation on /dev/hda1.
title           Debian GNU/Linux 2.6.16-2-486 (on /dev/hda1)
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-2-486 root=/dev/hda1
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.16-2-486
savedefault
boot


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing
# linux installation on /dev/hda1.
title           Debian GNU/Linux (testing/unstable) (on /dev/hda1)
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-2-686 root=/dev/hda1
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.16-2-686
savedefault
boot


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing
# linux installation on /dev/hda1.
title           Ok Debian GNU/Linux (testing/unstable) (on /dev/hda1)
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-2-486 root=/dev/hda1
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-2-486
savedefault
boot