Hi. I got exactly the same error message when trying to boot linux-image-2.6.14-1-k7, and have a somewhat different system.
I installed it with apt-get under 2.6.12 (previous linux-image-2.6-k7). The installation seems to go fine: --8<-- Setting up linux-image-2.6.14-1-k7 (2.6.14-2) ... Using /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk. Full list of probed ramdisk generating tools : /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird. Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub . Testing for an existing GRUB menu.list file... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst . Searching for splash image... none found, skipping... Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-1-k7 Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-k7 Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9 Found kernel: /boot/memtest86.bin Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done Setting up linux-image-2.6-k7 (2.6.14-2) ... --8<-- I do have a /dev/.static/dev/console device file. My fstab looks like this (non-comment lines): --8<-- /dev/hda2 / xfs defaults 0 1 /dev/hda1 none swap defaults 0 2 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /media/cdrom0 hfsplus,udf,iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /media/cdrom1 hfsplus,udf,iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 --8<-- And I have no aic7xxx SCSI controller, so that's probably not it. :-) (I have a SCSI card, but not that one, and I have no disks on it currently -- my only disk right now is plain old IDE.) I'll try some of the other things you suggested later (when I reboot). I can see about dumping some relevant files in a public place, too. - Ken