I have red hat 9 installed on my computer partition /dev/hda9. (there is no special /boot partition) I had made a monolithic kernel but the kernel could not load init----it was not able to mount the ext3 file system, it gave the error "kernel panic init not found, try passing init=/ ............." (although I had compiled the kernel with ext3 file support)
After that I downloaded the kernel-2.4.20-19.9.src.rpm from redhat.com. I compiled it using the rpmbuild command. The compilation was successful But still the same error "kernel panic init not found, try passing init=/ ............." again the kernel is not able to mount the ext3 file system.
My /bbot/grub/grub.conf file:----- title Red Hat Linux 9 (2.4.20-8) ----------- This is the working version root (hd0,8) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img title Red Hat Linux 9 (2.4.20-19.9) root (hd0,8) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-19.9 ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-19.9.img init=/sbin/init title Chirag Linux root (hd0,8) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-chirag ro root=LABEL=/ nomodules initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img init=/sbin/init
PLEASE HELP, Regards Chirag.