On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 22:58, Sumeet Madhukar Moghe wrote:
> I am getting a strange kernel panic with a RedHat 8.0 install that
> worked like magic till last night. This happens only when I use my
> initrd image. The problem ceases when I dont use the initrd image. Even
> using a new initrd image doesn't really help. This is the kernel message
> that I get while mounting the root filesystem
> 
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
> pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 20
> umount /initrd/proc failed: 2
> Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
> The above is a lot of mumbo-jumbo for me. Could someone explain what
> exactly is happening and what I should do?
> /Sumeet

<guessing>
your kernel is expecting an initial ramdisk, but  your bootloader isn't
pointing out any.
</guessing>

possible solution: update bootloader config to mention initrd image. if
you don't have any such image or do not intend to use one, recompile
your kernel without initrd support.

- t.


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