[ale] Kernel panic: No init found?????

[Bao C. Ha]

It failed at the pivot_root.  Are you running initrd? 
Check the initrd image.  Also, check if the kernel is
supporting the filesystem on the initrd image.  Most
initrd, like Debian, is based on cramfs.  The initrd
may try to do fancy things like creating a directory
to mount the root filesystem.  It will fail, since
cramfs is a read-only file system.

Bao

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Seymour [mailto:jhseymour at directvinternet.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 1:50 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Kernel panic: No init found?????
> 
> 
> 	I tried my most recent kernel and have more info.  The 
> init=3 option
> did not change anything.  Here is the last five lines of boot 
> messages:
> 
> Creating root filesystem
> Mounting root filesystem
> pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 20
> freeing unused kernel memory: 232K freed
> Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
> 
> 	Hope the additional information helps.
> 
> TIA,
> Jim Seymour
> 
> Jim Philips wrote:
> > 
> > You could start by trying init=3 for command prompt mode, 
> multi-user.
> > 
> > On Friday 03 May 2002 04:25 pm, Jim Seymour wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > >       Recently my RH 7.1 system was running very slowly.  
> It would take
> > > forever to load a program if at all.  I decided to 
> shutdown and reboot.
> 
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