linux-image-2.6.10-2-686-smp: kernel panic - not syncing: attempting to kill init!

[Danilo Piazzalunga]

Olve Hansen wrote:
> I have over some time tried to install the latest linux-image-686
> (2.6.10-2), but get this message immediately after selecting the
> kernel in grub when I reboot:
> 
> Starting Ubuntu
> pivot_root: No such file or directory
> /sbin/init: 428 cannot open dev/console: No such file
> Kernel Panic - Not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
[...]
> I am using sata drives, and Hoary. Can anyone help me shed som light
> on this issue?

Run "sudo mkinitrd -k -o /dev/null": this will simulate the creation of a new
initrd image, keeping the result in /tmp/mkinitrd.NNNNN.

Then report the contents of /tmp/mkinitrd.NNNNN/initrd/loadmodules
and /tmp/mkinitrd.NNNNN/initrd/script.

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