On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Bill Baker wrote: > 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. These error messages tell you that the initrd failed to mount your main root partition. Earlier error messages may give you a clue as to why it failed to mount your root partition. Michael Young -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list