Recently, my system has been running a little slow, and I had installed a new
kernel (2.4.20-20.9), so I decided to reboot. When I selected the new kernel
(and even the old kernel), I got a bunch of messages ending with:
pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
umount /initrd/proc failed: 2
Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
I have been searching for a solution, but none of them work. The one
that seemed the most promising was rebuilding the initrd image, but
that didn't work. I made sure that /sbin/init is present, and that the
directory /initrd is on my hard drive. Here is my grub.conf file:
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-20.9)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-20.9.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-19.9)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-19.9 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-19.9.img
Another thing I thought of doing is to format the /boot partition
(/dev/hda1) and reinstall Red Hat 9. Would this work?
TIA
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