Just a short rundown,

I have both win2k server & RH 8.0 on a machine. They are both installed on seperate harddrives.

I can access RH via bootdisk & i can get in win2k via normal startup choice via lilo. Trying to use lilo to boot into Linux though gives me the following kernel panic.

mounting root filesystem
mount error 6 mounting ext3
pivotroot picot-root /sysroots, /sysroot.initrd failed:2
umount /initrd/proc failed:2

kernel panic: No init found Try passing init=option to kernel

Can anyone see anything above that would shed some light on my problem.

If needed i can give my current lilo configuration & fdisk format

Give LiLo, partition table, and contents of:

ls -l /boot

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hdc2 14 4738 37953562+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdc3 4739 4865 1020127+ 82 Linux swap

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1247 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1247 10016496 7 HPFS/NTFS


prompt
timeout=50
default=linux
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message
lba32

other=/dev/hda1
optional
label=DOS
table=/dev/hda

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-18.8
label=linux
root=/dev/hdc1
append="root=LABEL=/"
read-only
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-18.8.img

ls -l /boot/
total 5005
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Mar 21 01:28 boot.0300
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 May 11 10:40 boot.1600
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5824 Sep 6 2002 boot.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 612 Sep 6 2002 chain.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44764 May 29 21:49 config-2.4.20-18.8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jun 17 00:07 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 129439 Jun 9 07:40 initrd-2.4.20-18.8.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 473 Mar 21 00:23 kernel.h
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Mar 21 00:15 lost+found
-rw------- 1 root root 19968 Jun 17 05:28 map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23108 Sep 7 2002 message
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21282 Sep 7 2002 message.ja
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Jun 9 07:40 module-info -> module-info-2.4.20-18.8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15438 May 29 21:49 module-info-2.4.20-18.8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 640 Sep 6 2002 os2_d.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 518945 May 29 21:49 System.map-2.4.20-18.8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3175263 May 29 21:49 vmlinux-2.4.20-18.8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Jun 9 07:40 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.4.20-18.8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1118269 May 29 21:49 vmlinuz
2.4.20-18.8

but for now, I think all that looks good.
Try running (as su):

lilo

then reboot. See if that fixes it.