Hi, I installed the 2.6.1 kernel and having problems with initrd. My GRUB.CONF looks like this-

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title Linux(2.6.1) root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.1 ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.1.img

title RedHat Linux(2.4.20-8) root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img

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2.4.20-8 is the kernel installed by RH 9.0 and works fine. 2.6.1 is what i compiled from source and

gives me problem with initrd saying -

"kernel panic: no init found. try passing init= option to kernel"

I understand that there is no problem with the kernel but with the initrd file.

Linux is on /dev/hda5 with EXT3 fs and has NO BOOT partition. In 2.4.20-8 i can see EXT3 loading as a

module while booting, but in 2.6 EXT3 loading fails with this -

"mount: error 19 on loading ext3"

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When i remove the initrd line from GRUB.CONF i.e. -

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title Linux(2.6.1) root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.1 ro root=LABEL=/

title RedHat Linux(2.4.20-8) root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img

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2.6.1 loads completely without the module support...so i see that /dev/hda5 is mounted as EXT2 and not EXT3.

Now, after 2.6.1 is loaded, i try this- #depmod which tells me that EXT3 requires JBD( which is also a MODULE and NOT BUILT-IN ). After manually 'insmod jbd.ko' and 'insmod ext3.ko', EXT3 module loads succesfully.

So my problem is that during boot, EXT3 isnt getting loaded due to JBD and hence kernel cannot load initrd from /boot/initrd-2.6.1.img( which is on EXT3 fs )

My kernel compilation commands were- --------------------------- #mkdir /usr/src/build-2.6.1 #cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.1 #make O=/usr/src/build-2.6.1 menuconfig #make O=/usr/src/build-2.6.1 #make O=/usr/src/build-2.6.1 modules_install

---------------------------- i even tried - #mkinitrd /boot/System-2.6.1.map /boot/initrd-2.6.1.img but same problem...

help!!!

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