Kernel Panic
 

I have done everything that is said in the following How-To:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...t=kernel+panic

yet I still get "Kernel Panic blah blah try passing init="

I originally had 2.4.20-8 and am upgrading to 2.4.24 and am running Red Hat 9. When I did "make menuconfig" I didnt change anything, just saved since all I needed to do what update to a new kernel.

I have literally tried everything except the right solution. If anyone can help me it would be greatly appreciated

-Thanks

Kernel Panics usually come about due to a bad config of the kernel.

Could you give more detail on what the Kernel Panic message actually was?
Like a few lines before the Panic?

Also in your config, make sure all the important stuff in in there... I used to get kernel panics a lot when I left out filesystem (ext3) and hard disk controller support.

Does it matter how you include them? For example should I load the file systems as modules or builtin?

Your primary filesystem you HAVE to compile into the kernel. Otherwise it can't actually find the module to load it. I compile ext2, ext3 amd resier into the kernel. Everything else which isn't needed to boot the system is modularised.

I'll try doing that in the morning, I really hope thats all I forgetting to do. I followed the "How to" completely, so when I recompile with the new settings I'll follow that again and hope for the best. Thanks for the very quick replies.

Copy the 2.4.20-8 config from /boot and load it in menuconfig, then save and do the compile.
IIRC 2.4 won't find your old config automatically, unlike 2.6, but I could be wrong.
There's no need to compile the filesystem/ide chipset etc into the kernel since the initrd in rh9 is suppose to take care of that, in fact I don't think it'll work properly if you do compile it in, unless you change the references to labels in fstab and grub.conf to actual devices.

Oh an becareful just copying an old config file and compiling directly. Each new kernel has new options and it's a good idea to have a look through them.