On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 19:32, Robert L. Cochran wrote: > ... The boot sequence started, then an error > message stating that the kernel couldn't find "init" and more messages > to the effect that it couldn't find an ext3 filesystem to mount came up.
I recently did a similar migration, and saw the same error message when booting through grub. I had forgotten to use grub's "initrd" command to specify the location of the initrd file; double check that. Be warned that you cannot do a redhat upgrade to 8.0 if the root filesystem is JFS (I tried). I've been told that non-root JFS filesystems don't pose a problem, but there seems to be something special about / in regards to their upgrade procedure. I wound up doing a minimal RH8 install into a small ext3 partition that was destined to become swap. After booting I set-up some JFS partitions, copied the installation over, and made the necessary mods to grub.conf and fstab. After ensuring the moved installation would boot, I turned the ext3 partition to swap. Then began the extremely painful process of installing the remaining redhat packages by hand. I wish redhat would get off their butt and support JFS as a filesystem for installs and upgrades. Neil Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/mailman/listinfo/jfs-discussion
