Kernel Upgrade

[novadragoon]

ok so never having installed a kernel before... i decided to upgrade to the 2.6.0-test4 kernel..... well i got it configured and
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
all cool no errors

i go in and copy my config file, system map and bzImage to /boot

i made with no errors the initird... with the mkinitrd command, got a initrd image......

then dumped it into my GRUB--

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
password --md5 ????????????????md5/G0
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8 Kernel)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.6.0-test4 Kernel)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /bzImage-2.6.0-test4 ro root=hd0,2
initrd /initrd-2.6.0-test4.img
title Microsoft Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
---------------------------------------------



i boot into my 2.6 kernel and it gives me these lines before the kernel panic

mounting /proc filesystem
creating block devices
creating root device
mounting root filesystem
mount: error 19 mounting ext3
piviotroot: pivotroot (/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed :2
umount /initrdproc failed: 2
Freeing unused kernel momory: 256k freed

Kerenl Panic - no init found. Try passing Init= to kernel




can someone help?

[pbharris]

hello,
well - lets see, you have a boot partiton located on /dev/hda3 - and you have you root partition located at /dev/hda2

did you put the new kernel stuff in the /boot partition? if so, good!

does the old kernel boot up? if so very good!!

finally - did you include your file system type and the proper ide supprt in the kernel? I am guessing this this the issue.

[novadragoon]

i think my boot is hda2, and my root is hda3, put new kernel into boot partiotn, with config file, ans system map,

old kernel still boots

and i am pretty sure i include the file system type and ide support when i configed...... I'll go back through the config file

[samwichse]

I've had trouble (for some reason) with booting from filesystems compiled as modules. In ReiserFS anyhow, I couldn't get a bootable kernel unless I checked, not dotted the reiserfs section.

You might try the same with anything you want to boot from?

I dunno . What filesystem are you using?

Sam

[nukes]

You have to build the root FS into the kernel, and you must use the updated module-init-tools from here:
http://his.luky.org/ftp/mirrors/linu...rusty/modules/
rather than the normal moduleutils package.
Do you have a /sys directory on the root FS. The 2.5/6 kernels want this. They will run without, but will complain.
What do you need the initrd for? Will it work without?

[novadragoon]

i did a make install, but everyone recoomended agaist it, It worked..... but it complied the kernal as a vmlinuz instead of a bzImage......

and i dont have ethernet, or sound.... yet