Re: Linux 2.6.0 initrd

["K.R. Foley" <kr@cybsft.com>]

Probably should also do something on the order of:
"mkinitrd /boot/2.6.0.img 2.6.0" and then modify the grub.conf to use 
the new initrd for the 2.6.0 kernel.

Laban Mwangi wrote:
> Well I just used the directions in the kernel src tree/README,
> i.e
> make menuconfig
> make bzImage
> make modules
> and
> make install (A few days ago out that it does copy modules to /lib/,
> boot image to /boot/ as well as edit my grub.conf or am I 'fumbling'
> over here)
> edited grub.conf coz of redhat's 'Label'
> and rebooted.
>
> The error I get is after 'mounting root filesystem'
> <error>
>
> > > > mount: error 19 mounting ext3 <<checked out .config and I have ext3
> compiled
>
> > > > pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed:2
> > > > umount /initrd/proc failed:2
> > > > freeing ....
> > > >
> > > > > kernel panic: no init found try passing init=
> <error/>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seth Arnold [mailto:sarnold@wirex.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 8:29 PM
> To: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
> Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.0 initrd
>
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 07:44:25PM +0300, Laban Mwangi wrote:
>
> > I recently patched my 2.5.74 to 2.6.0-test, I configured the kernel
>
> and
>
> > rebooted on a redhat 8.0. I also changed root=xxx to be
>
> root=/dev/hda2.
>
> > The kernel boots but panics complaining about 
> > 1 a pivot error
> > 2. no initrd-2.6.0-test.img found
>
>
> How did you build a new initrd?


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