as my painful experience with FC3, it MUST bootup with an initrd. this panic message looks familiar with me, since you have an initrd made, can you show me your grub config ? (or lilo ) Tsai ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harsha Srinath" <harsha@xxxxxxx> To: <kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 9:03 AM Subject: Kernel Panic [No init found] > Hi All, > > I am running FC3 with a 2.6.10 kernel without any problems. > > I am trying to install a 2.4.21 kernel for an application I am working > on. Initially I had problems compiling the 2.4 and after a lot of > effort, I changed the gcc to the right version (2.96.3) and was able to > compile the 2.4.21 kernel. I also had a problem with 'make > install_modules' that version reqired old depmod and I had to create a > symlink "ln -s /sbin/depmod /sbin/depmod.old". And finally it compiled > and installed. > > But when I try to boot this new 2.4.21, I get a kernel panic message > saying:- > > And now I am getting this message: > > /***************************************************************/ > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > EXT3-fs: mounted files system with ordered data mode. > pivotroot: pivot_root(/Sysroot,/Sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 > umount /initrd/proc failed: 2 > freeing unused kernel memory: 276k freed > Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. > /***************************************************************/ > > Any pointers, folks? > > I also I ran a > > /sbin/mkinitrd -v -f /boot/initrd/2.4.21.img 2.4.21 > > without any use. > > Thanks, > K > > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
