Hi All,

I am trying to install linux version 2.6.0 on a linux machine with CentOS.

The Problem after booting the system I am getting is as follows:

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Ext3-fs : Unable to read superblock
mount : error 22 mounting ext3
pivotroot : pivot_root((/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed:2
umount /initrd/proc failed:2
kernel panic: no init found try passing init= option to kernel.
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I am mentioning below the output of df command and the contents of /boot/grub/grub.conf file for your reference.

[root@localhost root]# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md2 529628 337068 165656 68% /
/dev/md1 264333 33727 216958 14% /boot
none 2050708 0 2050708 0% /dev/shm
/dev/md6 1043452 32840 957604 4% /tmp
/dev/md5 4142700 1965532 1966724 50% /usr
/dev/md7 529564 259780 242884 52% /var
/dev/md8 4142700 56576 3875680 2% /var/TKLC
/dev/md9 529564 16432 486232 4% /var/TKLC/recovery
/dev/md10 4142700 1507676 2424580 39% /var/TKLC/recovery/usr
/dev/md11 15630680 14727208 109468 100% /var/TKLC/swap


This is a snapshot of the /boot/grub/grub.conf file

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title CentOS (2.6.0)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.0 ro root=/dev/md2 hdb=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi apm=off reboot=w console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200
initrd /initrd-2.6.0.img
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My bosses are haunting over me to get the job done ASAP.
It would be a gr8 help if you could give some pointers.

Regards,
Shashank

Instead of attempting to install such an old 2.6 kernel why not just upgrade to CentOS 4.X (it's free afterall). Much easier to upgrade to 4.X then to get a 2.6 kernel on CentOS 2/3 working.

But if you want to do it the hard way;

http://www.fearthecow.net/index.pl?s...st&page=kernel
http://thomer.com/linux/migrate-to-2.6.html
http://kerneltrap.org/node/799

All the links are a bit old but should provide the information you need.

FYI: from ftp://centos.cs.ucr.edu/centos/4.3/os/SRPMS

kernel-2.6.9-34.EL.src.rpm 43343 KB 03/14/2006 12:46:00 AM