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Sarge_2.4.27-3__kernel_panic

From: Cousin Stanley <cousinstanley(at)hotmail.com>
Date: Fri Aug 31 2007 - 05:17:21 EDT

Greetings ....

A few days ago I moved a hdd with a Sarge installation that had run for a little over 3 years in an old Compaq box to another old HP box because the power supply in the Compaq died and the HP power supply wouldn't fit the Compaq .... :-)

The Compaq box had a Cyrix processor and I had 2 working kernels under Sarge and I used the 686 version as the default ....

      2.4.27-3-686
      2.4.27-3-386

The HP box that the disk is in now has an AMD K6-2 processor and after the move the 2.4-686 wouldn't boot but the other 2.4-386 would boot and run Sarge OK ....

I installed a K6 kernel and un-installed the 686 kernel that wouldn't boot ....

sudo apt-get intall kernel-image-2.4.27-3-k6

sudo apt-get --purge remove kernel-image-2.4.27-3-686

Do you need help?

Now I can't boot into either the newly installed K6 kernel or the older 386 version and get the following messages at boot time from either ....

pivot_root: no such file or directory

/sbin/init: 432 cannot open dev/console no such file

kernel panic: attempted to kill init !

I spent a fair amount of time Google-izing and found quite a few others that had gotten similar error messages at boot time but not quite under the same circumstances ....

Most of these were either problems upgrading from 2.4 to 2.6 kernels or sata drive problems ....

The K6 kernel files all seem to be in place in the /boot dir and the grub/menu.lst seems to have been updated OK when I check from a Knoopix CD boot ....

Any clues as to how to repair this problem would be greatly appreciated ....

Do you need more help?

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Stanley C. Kitching
Human Being
Phoenix, Arizona

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