Kernel panic

[jmendez]

Ok! I installed Red hat linux 9.0 on my secondary drive with 200gigs in a partition wth 10gigs including a swap file. Did this so that it wont crash my WinXp on my Dell Inspiron Notebook m500. Install with boot loader on a diskette. Everything checks out..boot from floppy and I got the following...
>mount: error 6 mounting ext3
>pivotroot:pivotroot(/sysroot,sysroot/initrd failed:2
>kernel panic: no init found
>try passing init=option to kernel
Created /INITRD dir
Did Linux rescue
I still get a hangup.
Please help
James

[knute]

1. Do you have ext3 support in your kernel?

2. In the boot messages, is there anything about the ramdisk? specifically relating to it's size?

3. Are there more messages regarding the initrd file than what you have posted?

[jmendez]

Thanks for replying
Yes I am sure a have a long list..
But how do I copy the error messages in dos to a file?
especially when it hangs up.

James

[knute]

Originally posted by jmendez
Thanks for replying
Yes I am sure a have a long list..
But how do I copy the error messages in dos to a file?
especially when it hangs up.

James

My first guess, and probably the easiest would be a pencil and paper. That's why I put my questions so specifically.

I don't know if you can pipe the output of bootup to a file, other than what's in /var/log/messages.