thanks 4 help,

/dev/sda1 worked actually mkinitrd but now i am getting error Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. whats this ? tried google but cant find solution

Santhosh Joseph santhosh@ezrs.com wrote: looks like this is a path related issue.

Use a rescue CD if available, mount your partitions, chroot and edit the grub.conf file to set the correct location

pramila wrote:

Hello,

I recomplied my kernel 2.4.20 but when tried to boot with new kernel image, grub gives an error-

" cannot open root device / please append a correct root=boot option"

any suggessions ?

my /etc/grub.conf is -

default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img

title Red Hat Linux NEW (2.4.20-8) root (hd0,0) kernel /newbzimage ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img

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i hv already compiled ext3 in kernel i.e Ext3 journalling file system suport in File System option

still getting same error

Vivek J Patankar vj714151-ilugbom@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Pramila, Trevor mentioned in his reply to your original post that you have to compile all required modules directly into the kernel. Now what has happened here is that the kernel doesn't know how to read your file systems, and hence cannot find init. This is because support for file systems have been compiled as modules. What you have to do is the compile ext2, ext3 and if required vfat & ntfs directly into the kernel. That will solve your immediate problem. Also when you recompile, directly compile support for your Display Adapter, Sound Adapter, NIC, etc etc, into the kernel. This will avoid a lot of headache later. cheerio vivek

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