kernel recompile question

Danforth · 04-25-2004, 07:07 PM

i downloaded the 2.6.5 image and everythign works until boot time
i get a message that says
"kernel panic: no init found. try passing init= option to kernel
i'm kind of new where linux is concerned, so i'm not sure what to do. truthfully i was surprised that i got it to work as much as i did.

anyways, thanks in advance for the help

Danforth

DrOzz · 04-25-2004, 07:42 PM

is there any way you can show more of the error ...
there are many many reasons why kernel panics occur, and just
showing the the kernel panic message doesn't really narrow
the problem down ...
and while your at it, can you give a step by step on what you did
when recompiling your kernel. just for we can see if you
missed anything ... and also the changes you made to your
lilo.conf or grub.conf file ... pending on your bootloader...

Danforth · 04-26-2004, 12:36 AM

http://www.digitalhermit.com/~kwan/kernel.html <--- is the process i followed.

recompiled to kernel 2.6.5
grub is Configured correctly
during loading of the kernel i get the following messages

mounting root filesystems
mount:error 19 mounting ext3
pivotrootivotroot </sysroot, /sysroot/initrd> failed:2
umount /initrd/proc/ failed:2
freeing unused kernel memory :236k freed
'Kernel panic:No init found. try passing init= option to kernel'

and then it stops...
what does this error message asking me to do, exactly ?

Thanks in advance for the help.

dan4th