Comment 89 for bug 8196

I got this kind of problem after upgrading from version -25 to -27 of the
2.6.10-4 kernel - on my old laptop, a Sony Vaio Z600 (the 2.6.10-5 version has
the same problem).

As of now, the kind of kernel messages with the new kernel are:
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 1.10 loaded.
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
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!

The kind of kernel messages with the old kernel were:
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 1.10 loaded.
ata_piix version 1.03
ata1: PATA max UDMA/33 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0xFCB0 irq 14
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:0f00 82:7c6b 83:4108 84:4000 85:7c69 86:0008 87:4000 88:041f
ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/66, 39070080 sectors:
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/33
scsi0 : ata_piix
elevator: using anticipatory as default io scheduler
  Vendor: ATA Model: TOSHIBA MK2016GA Rev: U0.3
  Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
ata2: PATA max UDMA/33 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xFCB8 irq 15
ata2: disabling port
scsi1 : ata_piix
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
SCSI device sda: 39070080 512-byte hdwr sectors (20004 MB)
[etc.]