[lug] Still challenging

[Gary Hodges]

Thanks for all the replies.  I used parts of several to get where I'm at 
now.  Sorry to not address each reply individually, but it seems best to 
start fresh with a new problem after a short review.

1.  I believe the BIOS has a bug as I stated earlier.  In the boot order 
list I had to set the SCSI drive as first as it wouldn't cascade past 
floppy and IDE-CDROM and then boot.  The cascading feature seems to work 
for non SCSI devices.

2.  I was using an older beta installer as the newest one doesn't see my 
SCSI controller and this installer has a bug in grub.  Before finding 
the workaround all I would get is a line that said something like "grub 
version 1.5."  Installing with "noexec=off" is the work around.

There are other details but the end result of all is below...

I have installed the system and I get to a grub window with menu list.  
Good so far.  After a bit of the usual boot messages I get:

pivot_root: No such file or directory
/sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

Some googling indicates this was a bug found and fixed during the 
installer development, however, I've since tried installing with a daily 
build of the deb amd64 installer (7-6-2005) and the same thing happens.  
I've tried both the generic and smp kernels with the same result.  I'm 
guessing I can work through this by installing a newer kernel when 
booted under Knoppix but I'm unsure how best to do this.  I'll do some 
reading this weekend.

Cheers,
Gary