Hi all,
I am in very deep and hot waters...
I have upgraded my kernel to 2.6.8-9 using synaptic and now I am getting kernel panic with:
pivot-root: no such file or directory sbin/init: 426: cannot open dev/console: no such file
I did investigate this as much as I can, and I am led to believe that it has something to with the /usr/sbin/mkinitrd as explained here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=263169
I did apply the patch --using a Knoppix CD as I am not able to login to the box by any other means.
All partitions are on a 3ware 8506 RAID 5 card, and I had no problems booting it up until I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.8-9 (using synaptic).
I did try any of the follwing 17 (16?) boot options, and each time I get the same kernel panic.
I really really would like not to have to re-install this machine if it is at all possible --I have spent so much time setting it up and configuring numerous applications/daemons on it.
I dont have any other amd64 machines that I could --if it possibly works-- replace some image in /boot.
I am not even sure whether it might work.
How do I get out of this catch-22?
Could someone help me with this.
Thanks in advance, Ray
<===================> here is the contents of /mnt/sda1/grub/menu.lst <===================> # Generated by grubconf-0.5.1 default=16 timeout=5
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel #:0 <-- type: 0 => linux, 1 => windows, 2 => other root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro initrd /initrd.img savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel (recovery mode) #:0 <-- type: 0 => linux, 1 => windows, 2 => other root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro single initrd /initrd.img savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.7-5-amd64-xeon #:0 <-- type: 0 => linux, 1 => windows, 2 => other root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.7-5-amd64-xeon root=/dev/sda1 ro initrd /initrd.img-2.6.7-5-amd64-xeon savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.7-5-amd64-xeon (recovery mode) #:0 <-- type: 0 => linux, 1 => windows, 2 => other root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.7-5-amd64-xeon root=/dev/sda1 ro single initrd /initrd.img-2.6.7-5-amd64-xeon savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel #:0 <-- type: 0 => linux, 1 => windows, 2 => other root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro initrd /initrd.img savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel (recovery mode) #:0 <-- type: 0 => linux, 1 => windows, 2 => other root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro single initrd /initrd.img savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel .old #:0 <-- type: 0 => linux, 1 => windows, 2 => other root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz.old root=/dev/sda1 .old initrd /initrd.img.old savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel .old (recovery mode) #:0 <-- type: 0 => linux, 1 => windows, 2 => other root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz.old root=/dev/sda1 .old single initrd /initrd.img.old savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-1-amd64-generic #:0 <-- type: 0 => linux, 1 => windows, 2 => other root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-amd64-generic root=/dev/sda1 ro initrd /initrd.img-2.6.8-1-amd64-generic savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-1-amd64-generic (recovery mode) #:0 <-- type: 0 => linux, 1 => windows, 2 => other root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-amd64-generic root=/dev/sda1 ro single initrd /initrd.img-2.6.8-1-amd64-generic savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.7-5-amd64-xeon #:0 <-- type: 0 => linux, 1 => windows, 2 => other root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.7-5-amd64-xeon root=/dev/sda1 ro initrd /initrd.img-2.6.7-5-amd64-xeon savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.7-5-amd64-xeon (recovery mode) #:0 <-- type: 0 => linux, 1 => windows, 2 => other root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.7-5-amd64-xeon root=/dev/sda1 ro single initrd /initrd.img-2.6.7-5-amd64-xeon savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel #:0 <-- type: 0 => linux, 1 => windows, 2 => other root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro initrd /initrd.img savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel (recovery mode) #:0 <-- type: 0 => linux, 1 => windows, 2 => other root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro single initrd /initrd.img savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel .old #:0 <-- type: 0 => linux, 1 => windows, 2 => other root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz.old root=/dev/sda1 .old initrd /initrd.img.old savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel .old (recovery mode) #:0 <-- type: 0 => linux, 1 => windows, 2 => other root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz.old root=/dev/sda1 .old single initrd /initrd.img.old savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-9-amd64-k8-smp #:0 <-- type: 0 => linux, 1 => windows, 2 => other root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-9-amd64-k8-smp root=/dev/sda1 ro initrd /initrd.img-2.6.8-9-amd64-k8-smp savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-9-amd64-k8-smp (recovery mode) #:0 <-- type: 0 => linux, 1 => windows, 2 => other root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-9-amd64-k8-smp root=/dev/sda1 ro single initrd /initrd.img-2.6.8-9-amd64-k8-smp savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-9-amd64-k8 #:0 <-- type: 0 => linux, 1 => windows, 2 => other root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-9-amd64-k8 root=/dev/sda1 ro initrd /initrd.img-2.6.8-9-amd64-k8 savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-9-amd64-k8 (recovery mode) #:0 <-- type: 0 => linux, 1 => windows, 2 => other root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-9-amd64-k8 root=/dev/sda1 ro single initrd /initrd.img-2.6.8-9-amd64-k8 savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-9-amd64-generic #:0 <-- type: 0 => linux, 1 => windows, 2 => other root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-9-amd64-generic root=/dev/sda1 ro initrd /initrd.img-2.6.8-9-amd64-generic savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-9-amd64-generic (recovery mode) #:0 <-- type: 0 => linux, 1 => windows, 2 => other root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-9-amd64-generic root=/dev/sda1 ro single initrd /initrd.img-2.6.8-9-amd64-generic savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-1-amd64-generic #:0 <-- type: 0 => linux, 1 => windows, 2 => other root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-amd64-generic root=/dev/sda1 ro initrd /initrd.img-2.6.8-1-amd64-generic savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-1-amd64-generic (recovery mode) #:0 <-- type: 0 => linux, 1 => windows, 2 => other root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-amd64-generic root=/dev/sda1 ro single initrd /initrd.img-2.6.8-1-amd64-generic savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.7-5-amd64-xeon #:0 <-- type: 0 => linux, 1 => windows, 2 => other root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.7-5-amd64-xeon root=/dev/sda1 ro initrd /initrd.img-2.6.7-5-amd64-xeon savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.7-5-amd64-xeon (recovery mode) #:0 <-- type: 0 => linux, 1 => windows, 2 => other root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.7-5-amd64-xeon root=/dev/sda1 ro single initrd /initrd.img-2.6.7-5-amd64-xeon savedefault boot <===================>