On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 08:39:18AM +0200, Florian Reitmeir wrote: > On Mon, 16 Okt 2006, Daniel Devost wrote: > > > 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. > > Looks like /dev/ is empty or broken or UDEV is broken on your system. The > question is why.. if you mount the disk manually, and look into /dev, there > are device nodes? (real device nodes, not only files..)
That is Sarge. So it's devfs, and not udev. However, as you can see, pivot_root failed. The initrd has failed to mount the root filesystem. Does the kernel support that disk controller? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
