Newly compilied 2.6.6-mm5 gives me a "no init found???"

[Panther_7]

To finally make my passage into geekdom, I finally decided to patch and compile my own kernel. It worked before when I patched the 2.6.4 with patch-2.6.5 and the mm patch following the directions here:
http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=126141&highlight=installing+kernel+2.6

When I tried to patch 2.6.5 with a 2.6.6 and the new mm5 patch, I keep on getting a "no init found" kernel panic. :confused:

[bwkaz]

There almost have to be messages before the panic... what are they? The rest of this post is just guesses.

Did you build support for your root filesystem into the kernel? Did you build basic IDE support in? (from the config.txt, it looks like you did)

Did you pass the correct root= option to the kernel from your bootloader?

[Panther_7]

Everything is working fine now. I just had to fix an issue with the naming of the kernel images.

[hammer123]

so just since i see this error so much i thought i would respond with this.

if you see that error the root= option that is passed to the kernel in the boot loader is probably not pointing to something correctly