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

[Jeroen Versteeg]

I have the same issue!

I have a debian testing box, which started complaining when "apt-get 
dist-upgrade" installed the 2.6.38 kernel (2.6.32 worked fine) a few 
weeks (months?) ago. I just set grub's default to the earlier kernel, 
which worked fine.

Yesterday I ran apt-get dist-upgrade again, and a 3.x kernel was 
installed. This morning, the box crashed on boot, with the same error.

So I manually selected the oldest kernel in grub, and ran 
update-initramfs and update-grub to see if that would fix the problem. 
Unfortunately, now even the 2.6.32 doesn't boot anymore!

Unfortunately, I can't create a boot CD, and the box can't boot from 
USB, and the grub shell (is that busybox?) has no edit functionality it 
seems, so I'm kinda stuck!

Regards,
Jeroen