I am trying to upgrade to the 2.5.5 kernel that I downloaded from kernel.org.
All goes well through the 'make menuconfig' and 'make dep clean zImage' stages.
There is one message that passes by fleetingly about a 'nbat' variable that is
not found, but it doesn't stop things. I have also successfully modified lilo
so that I can keep the 2.0.36 kernel working.
When I try to boot with the new kernel, it gets through finding the ide hard
drives, and then it stalls with a kernel panic. In an previous effort, I
had modularized the IDE drivers which stopped booting when it tried to find the
root filesystem. Once I fixed that problem, it died just a bit later. When I
fixed that probelm I also realized that I had added the ATA option, which I
don't think I need for my drives.
These are more or less the last few lines before the system halts:
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) read only
Freeing unused kernel memory ...
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
I have recently added an Adaptec ATA2920C that I have yet to get recognized
under 2.0.36. I have a Yamaha CD-RW drive attached to it.
Any suggestions on what is wrong here?
Thanks.
Harry
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