[ale] 2.6.8.1 Kernel Panic

[Charles Shapiro]

Umm. This sounds like you don't have the right drivers for your disk or
file system in your new kernel. You can load them via an "initrd.img"
file or just make sure they're compiled in. Without knowing what your
hardware is or your file system (ext3?) I cannot tell you what they
might be, alas.  You might be able to solve the "too big" problem by
cutting down the number of things you're compiling into the kernel in
your .config file and making them into modules loaded with insmod(8)
instead. I'd be Really Surprised if substituting a 2.4 config file for
your 2.6 one did  anything useful.

Also, some googling around found this 
( http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5793467888.html ) which might be
helpful. I note with interest that it hints about changes to /etc/fstab.
It looks like you might not be getting that far though.

-- CHS

On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 21:27, Jamil Voss wrote:
> Hey, I am currently running a 2.4.21-0.16mm kernel, and I'm using Mandrake. 
> I am trying to move to a 2.6.8.1 Kernel. I have compiled it and installed 
> it; everything compiled perfectly normal as far as I know. Yet, when I tried 
> to boot the new kernel I got a kernel panic (the first of a short series).
> 
> mount: error 19 mounting ext3 flags Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing 
> init= option to Kernel.
> 
> --Then after messing around with the ext3 options in the config, I fixed 
> that problem (well, in better words, "I changed the problem"). No I was 
> getting this problem:
> 
> loading vmlinuz2681EBDA too big
> 
> --I tried to fix that, but couldn't find what to change in the config. I 
> decided to just go ahead and try compiling it with the config from the 
> kernel I am currently using. I now get this message:
> 
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (34,1)
> 
> I get that message only when booting using grub. When I use lilo it says 
> something like "loading linux..." and stays that way.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated. I am eventually going to install an echo 
> layla24 multi-track recorder, but I wanted to first update my kernel.
> 
> -Jamil
> 
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