You're seeing those errors at boot?? That looks quite odd to say the least, especially 'creating root device'. Did you turn on devfs perchance (a bad idea, especially for someone inexperienced with kernel builds). Some info additional info here would be useful, such as which kernel you've been running, which version your'e trying to build etc. What kind of filesystem / sits on (ext2, ext3, Reiser, XFS).
--- Vern W Heesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been trying to compile a newer kernel and now I get a Kernel > panic > error on boot. I should note that this was my first attempt at > kernels, also > I can boot just fine with the original kernel. The error is: > > creating root device > mkrootdev: mknod failed: 17 > mounting root filesystem with flags noatime > mount: error 16 mounting ext2 flgs noatime > well, retrying without the option flags > mount: error 16 mounting ext2 > well, retrying read-only without any flag > mount: error 16 mounting ext2 > pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot, /sysroot//initrd) failed: 2 > remounting devfs at correct place if necessary > Freeing unused kernel memory: 236k freed > Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel > > I really don't know where I went wrong. I even did the kernel with > 'make > oldconfig' to make sure the parameters were the same. Any help would > be > greatly appreciated. ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
