Installing 2.6.4 on RH9

[Douglas Phillipson]

Can anyone else provide feedback on this issue?  I can't believe more 
people aren't having this problem...

Thanks

Doug P

Paal Marker wrote:
> 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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