Kernel Panic with any newer kernel

gri6507 · 12-15-2005, 11:49 AM

I am not sure if this post belongs in the Software forum, but I saw other kernel related posts here (none of which answered my question by the way), so here goes.

I am currently running PCLinuxOS with an old 2.6.7 kernel. I have not been able to upgrade to any newer kernel either by downloading the PCLOS version through Synaptic nor by compiling my own from source. Every time I boot into one of these newer kernels, I get the following error:

Code:

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
Mounting tmpfs on /dev 
Creating root device 
Mounting root filesystem /dev/root 
mount: error 6 mounting ext3 flags defaults 
well, retrying without the option flags 
mount: error 6 mounting ext3 
well, retrying read-only without any flags 
mount: error 6 mounting ext3 
pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 
umount /initrd/sys failed: 2 
umount /initrd/proc failed: 2 
initrd finished 
freeing unused kernel memory: 224k freed 
Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

I looked around the various forums including PCLOS, and have verified that I was doing everything right: all kernels had ext3 filesystem support built in, and LILO configuration was correct

Code:

======= LILO.CONF ======= 
# File generated by DrakX/drakboot 
# WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file 
 
default="pclinuxos" 
boot=/dev/hda 
map=/boot/map 
keytable=/boot/livecd.klt 
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw 
prompt 
nowarn 
timeout=100 
message=/boot/message 
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7-2.tmb.6mdk 
 label="pclinuxos" 
 root=/dev/hda5 
 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.7-2.tmb.6mdk.img 
 append="nomce devfs=nomount acpi=ht splash=silent" 
 vga=788 
 read-only 
other=/dev/hda1 
 label="win_c" 
image=/boot/vmlinuz 
 label="linux" 
 root=/dev/hda5 
 initrd=/boot/initrd.img 
 append="nomce acpi=ht splash=silent" 
 vga=788 
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.13-oci2.mdk 
 label="2613-oci2" 
 root=/dev/hda5 
 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.13-oci2.mdk.img 
 append="nomce acpi=ht splash=silent" 
 vga=788 
image=/boot/vmlinuz-i586-up-1GB 
 label="linux-i586-up-1GB" 
 root=/dev/hda5 
 initrd=/boot/initrd-i586-up-1GB.img 
 append="nomce acpi=ht splash=silent" 
 vga=788 
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.13-oci2.mdk-i586-up-1GB 
 label="2613i586up1GB-oci2" 
 root=/dev/hda5 
 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.13-oci2.mdk-i586-up-1GB.img 
 append="nomce acpi=ht splash=silent" 
 vga=788

I tried passing root=/dev/hda5 rootfstype=ext3 acpi=off debug and various other options in various combinations to the kernel at LILO prompt. All resulted in the same error message.

My computer is actually fairly new. It's an IBM ThinkCenter with 3GHz P4 and 1G RAM. The frustrating part is that it works just fine with the older kernel! Could it be that the newer kernels are actually having some hardware issues? What else can I try?

320mb · 12-15-2005, 12:20 PM

try upgrading the /dev package also...........compile/install the /dev first then do the newer kernel

gri6507 · 12-15-2005, 01:31 PM

I'm learning as I go, so please pardon the question. What is the /dev package? How do I compile my own and install it while still making sure that I don't screw up my currently working 2.6.7 kernel boot?