From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261326AbULESVK (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Dec 2004 13:21:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261334AbULESVK (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Dec 2004 13:21:10 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:29871 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261326AbULESVF (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Dec 2004 13:21:05 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jon Masters Subject: Re: Booting 2.6.10-rc3 Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 18:10:38 +0000 Organization: World Organi[sz]ation Of Broken Dreams Message-ID: References: <1102256916.29858.210104494@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: apogee.jonmasters.org User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040918) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <1102256916.29858.210104494@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Cc: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Anandraj wrote: > Red Hat nash version 3.5.22 starting > mount: error 6 mounting ext3 > pivotroot: pivo_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed : 2 > umount /initrd/proc failed: 2 > Kenel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try Passing init=option to > kernel. > Can somebody help me on this !! ?? You need to read the build instructions for a Fedora Core distribution. Briefly however, modern distros rely upon an initial RAMdisk which sets up various hardware drivers before changing the root filesystem with the pivot_root utility and booting the main system proper. There's probably a missing mkinitrd et al. in there. Cheers, Jon.