Kernel Panic!!
 

Finally figured out how to compile and install the new kernel 2.6.2

But now, when I try to boot to it I get a Kernel Panic

Kernel Panic: No init found. Try Passing init= option to kernel

Is there anything I need to do with RH9 to get it to run the kernel?

Make sure you have an initrd.img file that is being accessed by LILO or GRUB. This can be created by using the mkinitrd command (as root):

mkinitrd initrd-kernel-version.img kernel-version

Hopefully this was helpful.

The mkinitrd suggested by peace should solve your problem.

Another way to solve the problem is to make all of the modules that need to be loaded by initrd as a part of the bootable kernel and dispense with initrd entirely. You set these modules to y instead of m when you do the kernel configuration.

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I don't seem to have a mkinitrd and I am running Slack9.1! Anyone know where it is?

"I don't seem to have a mkinitrd and I am running Slack9.1! Anyone know where it is?"

mkinitrd is a script. Download mkinitrd for some other distribution and use that as a pattern to do it by hand.

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