Hi all,

Well heres my situation. I'm running RH9 kernel 2.4.20-8. I'm tyring to update my kernel to 2.6.1. I can recompile the kernel without a hitch, but when I try to load the new kernel from GRUB it'll get a ways down then i get this:

Mounting root filesystem
mount: error 19 mounting ext3
pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
unmount /initrd/proc failed : 2
Freeing unused kernel memory: 228k freed
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.


Not sure whats goin on here. If anyone can shed light on my situation i'd be greatful. Thanx - fader

did you compile ext3 into the kernel or as a module?
and what steps did you take in point fourm to compile ?
and post your grub.conf file..

Should i compile ext3 into or as a module?

what command should i use to edit grub.conf or even modules.conf?

We're talking about compiling ext3 support into the kernel binary itself, so it has nothing to do with external files such as modules.conf and grub.conf.

Remember when you did make xconfig/menuconfig/gconfig/config?

Under the "File Systems" section, make sure ext3 is checked off as compile-into-kernel and not compile-as-module.

I have a similar problem, but get error 6. ext2 and ext3 are built into the kernel.

I get the following error after trying to boot to 2.6.2:
Mounting root filesystem
Mount; error 6 mounting ext3 flags defaults
....

Here's an extract of my config:
...CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR=y
# CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL is not set
# CONFIG_EXT2_FS_SECURITY is not set
CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
# CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR is not set
CONFIG_JBD=y
# CONFIG_JBD_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_FS_MBCACHE=y
...
CONFIG_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y
CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPNP is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y

I've changed the ext2 and ext3 settings to no avail. Here's a diff between recent runs:
1596,1597c1596,1597
< # CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL is not set
< # CONFIG_EXT2_FS_SECURITY is not set
---
> CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
> CONFIG_EXT2_FS_SECURITY=y
1599c1599,1601
< # CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR is not set
---
> CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR=y
> CONFIG_EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
> CONFIG_EXT3_FS_SECURITY=y


Here's an extract of my lilo.conf:
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
default="linux-smp"
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
disk=/dev/hdg bios=0x82
disk=/dev/hde bios=0x81
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux"
root=/dev/hdg5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount resume=/dev/hdg6"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-smp
label="linux-smp"
root=/dev/hdg5
initrd=/boot/initrd-smp.img
append="devfs=mount resume=/dev/hdg6"
read-only

Here are my mount points:
/dev/ide/host3/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev type devfs (rw)
/dev/ide/host3/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620)
/dev/ide/host3/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 on /home type ext3 (rw)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 on /mnt/win_c type ntfs (ro,iocharset=iso8859-1)
/dev/ide/host3/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 on /tmp type ext3 (rw)
/dev/ide/host3/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 on /usr type ext3 (rw)

All files are copied to /boot using make install. The linux-smp kernel is 2.4.2 (Mandrake 9.2), and works fine.

Any help in getting me past this error would be very much appreciated. I must've compiled the kernel at least 6 times now with different configs without much luck.