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.