Installing 2.6.3 on RH9
Paal Marker
paal at barum.folkebibl.no
Wed Mar 31 08:33:08 UTC 2004
I had the excactly same problem in installing 2.6.4.
I had to do two things. After making .config I had to edit .config and
replace CONFIG_EXT3_FS=m to CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y.
Second I had to: mkdir /sys .
Then edit /etc/rc.sysinit.
After the line: 'action $"Mounting proc filesystem: " mount -n -t proc
/proc /proc ' adding:
'action $"Mounting proc filesystem: " mount -n -t sysfs /sys /sys'
In my experience the same problem occured both in 2.6.3 and 2.6.4. I
installed on rh8.
Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> I recently tried 2.6.3 and it appeared to work fine but 2.6.4 won't
> boot. When booting it says it can't mount root as ext3.
>
> I have ext2/ext3 compiled in the kernel, it's not a module. The exact
> error is:
>
> Creating root device
> Mounting root filesystem
> Mount: error 6 mounting ext3
> pivotroot: pivotroot(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
> umount /initrd/proc failed: 2
> Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
>
>
> What is so different between 2.6.3 and 2.6.4 that would cause this?
>
>
> Here is GRUB entry:
>
> title Red Hat Linux (2.6.4)
> root (hd0,1)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.4 ro root=/dev/hda2
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.4.img
>
>
> Many Thanks
>
> Doug P
>
>
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