Comment 13 for bug 11980

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:28:24 +0100
From: maximilian attems <email address hidden>
To: "AKL. Mantas Kriauciunas" <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#290474: I can't boot 2.6.8 and 2.6.10 kernels on my system,
 while 2.6.7 starts without problems

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, AKL. Mantas Kriauciunas wrote:

> I can't boot 2.6.8 and 2.6.10 kernels on my system while 2.6.7 was
> installed on same system and starts without problems few months ago.
>
> I got the same error like others - cannot open dev/console, preceded
> by a message from pivot_root which does not found the root partition.
>
> I use grub and xfs file system on SATA drive (hde) on system with
                                                ^^^
> Athlon (k7) CPU.
>
> Tried several initrd versions (0.1.77, 0.1.76, 0.1.73, 0.1.67), but
> without success :( AFAIK when I installed 2.6.7 kernel, then
> initrd-tools version 0.1.67 were installed on my system and initrd was
> generated corectly, this kernel starts without problems.
>
> It seems bugs 290474 and 271038 are related - in both cases kernel
> doesn't start with message "cannot open dev/console: No such file"
>
> I can send initrd, generated when I install kernel-image 2.6.8 and
> 2.6.10, which doesn't start.

after 2.6.7 the sata device name against change back to scsi style,
aka sdxN

it looks like you are specifying the wrong devie name.
hope that helps
thanks for your feedback

--
maks