Allow me to preface this by stating that I am a hardware minded person. This is my first venture into the Linux OS. If I seem a bit slow or do not understand what you want me to do please be patient.
I have recently installed Red Hat 9 on my Acer Travelmate 4500. However, in order to use my 802.11g Intel Pro 2200 card I needed to update from the stock 2.4 kernel to a 2.6 or later kernel. I stumbled across Kernel.Org and soon found all the files I would need to make the transition. Google promptly gave me your guide to updating kernels on Red Hat 8/9. I followed this guide and everything seemed to be going well until I attempted to boot the 2.6.11.6 kernel. I recieved the following error message:
Mounting root filesystem
mount: error 19 mounting ext3
pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
umount /initrd/proc failed: 2
Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed
Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
I have tried the following to fix the problem:
- I built menuconfig and made sure all ext3 proporties had an *.
- I remade the initrd file to no avail.
- I followed all possible solutions presented in your guide.
If there is any further information you like me to post please tell me along with instructions on where to find this information. Any help is greatly appreciated.
I am a new member but I have a slight complaint. I had typed all of this with a link to your own guide. The forum wouldn't allow me to post this because of spamming. This is understandable and no problem. However, it would not allow me to edit my previous message but rather made me re-type the whole thread. Perhaps this is a setting on my computer...if so I apologize.