kernel 2.6.10-5 doesnt boot with asus l8400c notebook

[Thomas Kaiser]

Olve Hansen wrote:
> 
> On 4/20/05, *Christoph Sturm* <christoph.sturm at gmail.com 
> <mailto:christoph.sturm at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     hey guys!
> 
>     I am running hoary on a asus l8400c notebook, and it crashes at boot
>     time with
>     pivot_root: no such file or directory
>     /sbin/init: 428 cannot open /dev/console : no such file
>     kernel panic
> 
>     the 2.6.10-4 kernel works flawlessly.
> 
>     -chris
> 
>  
> I am seeing the exact same thing, running on a Scaleo T Fujitsu Siemens. 
> I don't have the 2.6.10-4 kernel available, so I am stuck with 2.6.8. 
> (The latest versions of 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 have this problem).
>  
> I have posted this a few times in the forums, but no real solutions have 
> been presented.
>  
> Too bad that hoary is a step backwards in terms of hardware 
> compatabillity, at least that is my experience.
>  
> -- 
> Olve
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Hello

I had this problem some time ago with debian after I was playing with my 
bootloader. For me, I just past the wrong root to the kernel. The root 
was on /dev/hda1 and I configured root=/dev/hda2.

Check your menu.lst (/boot/grub/).

My Ubuntu is running on /dev/hda1 and menu.lst looks like that:
title           Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.10-5-386
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-5-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet splash
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.10-5-386
savedefault
boot

Regards, Thomas