kernel panic

[lyons_grant]

After several attempts, Linux Redhat 7.2 is still not playing well.

After a new install and upon boot up, I get the following error:

Creating Root Device
Mounting Root Filesystem
Error Mounting Ext3
Pivotroot: Pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd)Failed:2
Freeing unused kernal memory:220k freed
kernel panic:no init found. Try passing init=option to kernel.

I am running Redhat 7.2 on a PIII 1GhZ with 512 mb ram with Adaptec 2400A IDE Raid with raid 5 using 4 drives (239gb).

I re-installed one of the drives as master on the primary IDE channel on the motherboard to try out. I installed RedHat in the same manner and things worked out without any problems.

Any ideas or fixes would be greatly appreciated
Many Thanks,

Grant Lyons

[Spot]

please don't post the same thing to multiple sections. readers will see your post.

[JimH]

Pivotroot: Pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd)Failed:2

Look and see if you have a initrd directory under /. If not you need to create it.

$ ls /
bin boot dev etc home initrd lfs lib lost+found misc mnt opt proc root sbin tmp usr var

Jim H