[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#637481: /init: /init: 318: cannot open /root/dev/console: No such file

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

> I upgraded from version 2.86.ds1-60 to 2.88dsf-13.11 and booted,
> and soon after the bootloader (grub) ran, I was greeted
> with the following messages,

This upgrade had a very long jump in the version numbers of sysvinit.
Which verision of Debian did you start with and which did you upgrade
to?

The messages you included sound like a broken initrd, missing key
binaries (or some busybox symlinks).  Does it help to run
update-initramfs -u to update the initrd after the upgrade?

The problem happen before sysvinit is executed, so the bug is
probabliy in some other package.  Not sure which.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen