Update Re: [Techtalk] RH9 upgrade problem

[Conni]

Now it's b0rked even worse, and I don't have the knowledge base to fix it.

I eventually gave up with the CD install and did it from the hard drive.
Now, I seem to have an even bigger issue:  kernel panic.

Here's the last 5 lines before it freaks out and gives up:
mount error 22 mounting ext3
pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
umount /initrd/proc failed: 2
freeing unused kernel memory: 132K freed
kernel panic: no init found.  try passing init= option to kernel.

It uses grub, not lilo, so I can't just type "linux single" and play
around that way.  In fact, I haven't the first clue how to get it to do
anything other than boot.

The config (pressing 'e' in the loader screen) shows this:
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img

The one for a different (though not the one I was using until earlier
today; this is a failed attempt at self-compiling a kernel, and booting
into it isn't very helpful; it doesn't even find eth0) kernel reads thus:
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.17 ro root=/dev/hda2 pci=biosirq
initrd /initrd-2.4.17.img

I tried editing it so the 'kernel' line looked the same, and that didn't
help.  I tried 'linux single,' but grub apparently doesn't like that.  I
added 'init=3' to the kernel line, and that didn't help, either.

Does anyone else have these sorts of problems, or do the kernel gods just
hate me?

~C

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