Lance Spence wrote: >I don't know if my request made it through the first time, so I'm reposting. > >Can some one please help me with a kernel build and getting the system to >boot up completely. I have Redhat 8.0 and have rebuilt the kernel. I've gone >through the kernel building steps. Grub is installed and an entry for my new >kernel is in the list: > >root (hd0,0) >kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14a ro root=/dev/hda1 >initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14a.img > >When I choose my new kernel I get the following after a number of initial >boot messages. > >Warning: unable to open an inital console. >Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. > > >
This means the kernel can't find init. Either you gave it the wrong root=, or you aren't loading a driver. In your case are you sure that hda1 is your / partition? Generally that's /boot. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
