Kernel Panic

[Jahanzeb]

Hi ........
this is Jahan,
I have created a bzImage for Redhat Linux 9 with kernel version 2.4.20-8. After making the necessary changes in the grub.conf file, when I reboot my system with the new kernel, then the system gives me the following messages.

mount: error 19 mounting ext3
pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
umount /initrd/proc failed : 2
freeing unused kernel memory: 156 k freed.
kernel panic : no init found. try passing init = option to kernel

Can anyone help me that how I can rectify this problem.

Thanks.

[Jerome Henry]

Hi Jahan,

There are good chances that your system doesn't find its partitions. Could you post :

- your grub.conf file ;
- your /boot content.

Tks

J

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

did you create/define in grub.conf initrd file for your kernel?

Vitaly

[Jahanzeb]

Hello Dear

Here is the grub.conf

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda5
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux 9(Jahanzeb) (2.4.20-8)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img

title DAO GUNJRANAWALA (Compiled by Jahanzeb)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /bzImage.myker.8aug2003 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.8aug2003.img

And here are the contents of /boot.

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 87241 Aug 9 19:42 2.4.20-8.8aug2003.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5824 Jan 25 2003 boot.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 10 14:09 boot.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1195948 Aug 8 18:50 bzImage.myker.8aug2003
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 612 Jan 25 2003 chain.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44309 Mar 14 04:01 config-2.4.20-8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38820 Aug 8 18:48 config-2.4.20-8.8aug2003
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 10 14:08 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 87309 Aug 9 19:43 initrd-2.4.20-8.8aug2003.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 149668 Aug 7 19:14 initrd-2.4.20-8.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 473 Aug 7 19:14 kernel.h
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Aug 7 19:06 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23108 Feb 25 05:51 message
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21282 Feb 25 05:51 message.ja
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Aug 7 19:14 module-info -> module-info-2.4.20-8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15436 Mar 14 04:01 module-info-2.4.20-8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 640 Jan 25 2003 os2_d.b
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Aug 7 19:14 System.map -> System.map-2.4.20-8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 520129 Mar 14 04:01 System.map-2.4.20-8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 541124 Aug 8 19:02 System.map-myker.8aug2003
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3193503 Mar 14 04:01 vmlinux-2.4.20-8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Aug 7 19:14 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.4.20-8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1122186 Mar 14 04:01 vmlinuz-2.4.20-8

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

did you include support for ext3 filesystem in your kernel?

[Jahanzeb]

Hi dear Henry...

Thanks for your instant response,
and I am afraid that I don't know how to add the support for ext3 filesystem in Linux kernel. Would you be so kind to let me know that how to do this.

Thanks.

Jahan

[Steven E. Protter]

Unless you specifically went out of your way to exclude it ext3 filesystem support is in your kernel.

It would appear that my may have a disk/hardware problem. Is the behavior consistent?

State your version of Linux. Looks like 7.3.



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[James Wilson_5]

Jahan,

Look under "file systems" for ext3 in your kernel config and make sure it is compiled into the kernel and NOT selected as a module. (Modules for the root file system can be made to work at boot, but that is another story:))

James

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

>and make sure it is compiled into the kernel >and NOT selected as a module. (Modules for >the root file system can be made to work at >boot, but that is another story:))

AFAIK, in RH Linux kernel compiled with ext3 as module. Just because it RHL uses initrd by default.