Ashish,
Did you create the initrd after you installed the new kernel? The error "no init found" would indicate that either it doesn't exist or it is spelled incorrectly in the lilo.conf. Make sure this file exists --
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-ph.img
You can make this by typing "mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-ph.img 2.4.20-ph" The last piece MUST match the directory name in /lib/modules (ie /lib/modules/2.4.20-ph). This is what loads the modules at boot.
Hope this helps.
Drew
-----Original Message-----
From: Ashish Samant [mailto:als1140@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 12:40 PM
To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: kernel wont boot
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Hamilton Andrew wrote:
> Roger,
>
> What exact error are you getting and what does your grub.conf look like?
> Also what are the contents of your /boot directory? Some of this
> information might help in tracking down your problem. You can go back to
> the latest working boot configuration which is a reason I always leave it
> and try again. That is probably simplest. If that still causes you
> problems repost and we'll see if we can't help you fix it.
>
> Drew
Hi...
Sorry for intruding, but I was having problem with booting a new kernel
too and I think that was what had got the thread started. It would be
great if somebody could diagnose my problem here. I was running a RH9
distro (2.4.20) and tried to compile a clean version of the kernel
(2.4.20) to customize it. But after following all the steps, I get the
follwoing error when I attempt to boot with it. ( I can still get to my
old kernel, thankfully :) )
......
VFS : mounted root (ext3 filesystem) read-only
Freeing unused kernel memory 104k freed
Warning : unable to open initial console
Kernel panic : No init found
Try passing init= option to kernel
.......
Heres what my lilo.conf looks like :
......
prompt
timeout=50
default=Windows98(hda1)
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message
lba32
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-ph
label=2.4.20-ph
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-ph.img
read-only
append="hdc=ide-scsi root=/dev/hda3"
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8
label=redhat(hda3)
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img
read-only
append="hdc=ide-scsi root=/dev/hda3"
other=/dev/hda1
optional
............
I am temtpted to recompile and reinstall the kernel, but would like
to know, what did I do wrong the first tiem around, so that I dont repeat
it again :)
Thanks for your time,
Ashish.
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