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 > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
