Hi I have a homebuilt athlon 1Ghz with 4 hard drives. Most of the distros I boot are
on hdb ( the 2nd hard drive on the 1st IDE bus)

Lately I have been getting the following messages at boot:

intrid tools: 0.1.69
mount: fs type devfs not supported by kernel
umount: devfs not mounted
(the previous two lines repeat)
pivot_root: No such file or directory
/sbin/init: 424: cannot open dev/console: No such file
kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

When I reboot I still get the lines about devfs not supported but the boot succeeds
and I'm in KDE. I get a similar message sometimes booting Kanotix and the same thing
there i.e. rebooting solves the problem.

I have searched and found threads with these error messages, but as yet haven't
found any answers. I don't do upgrades of any kind. This Hard drive install of knoppix 3.5 (DVD)
is about 4-5 months running. Until about two weeks ago I never got the kernel panic message with this install.