after looking around, i found this entry in life with qmail. after changing all things descriped there, my qmail is running and running and breaking records. 
in addition to that, you should look here at tcpserver config
Archive for July, 2007
After a reboot of one of my systems I got the following error:
pivot_root: No such file or directory
/sbin/init: 426:cannot open /dev/console: No such file
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
After an upgrade of the kernel via apt-get on debian, the menu.lst entry in grub for the new kernel is pointed to /dev/hda1 by default. If the kernel is on a different partition this error will appear.
