Re: Doesn't boot Linux on SATA, but OpenBSD

[Uwe Dippel]

> So, when I root (hd0,1,a) followed by chainloader +1, it boots to
> OpenBSD splendidly.
> But root (hd0,0) [ext2 filesystem], makeactive, kernel vmliuz--- ro
> root=/dev/sda6, initrd ..., boot
> dies with pivot_root ... cannot open /dev/console ... Kernel panic.
> Yes, /dev/sda6 is '/'
>
> What is it that I make wrong here ?

Though I have yet to solve it, it seems I can absolve grub. After
plenty of research I found the problem to be with Debian, either a
kernel problem (missing driver) or a devfs/udev problem.

Now I am having to sort out a Debian-problem as it seems.

My excuses for the noise on the grub-list,

Uwe