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I have just installed Redhat 7.2 on a P3 with adaptec 2400A IDE RAID. After many attempts with the partitions, I have finally managed to install but not get the following error on boot: creatig root device mounting root filesystem error mounting ext3 pivotroot:pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd)failed:2 freeing unused kernel memory :220k freed kernel panic: no init found. try passing init=option to kernel as I am not a linux expert by any streatch of the imagination, any help would be greatly appreciated. Many Thanks, Grant Lyons

Hi, I am running RH 9.0 with Grub. I just added an additional "old" drive from another system which has Win98 (fat32) and RH 7.2 (ext2) installed. However, now when I boot up, I am getting the following errors: ext3: No journal on filesystem ide3(34,7) 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 My assumption is that ext3 doesn't recognize the partitions on the additional drive, but how do I convert the e...

...download version) with kernel 2.4.9-13 (upgraded by using the Up2date program). Today i used Up2date (version 2.7.11) to upgrade to 2.4.9-21 (kernel, headers and source). I get the following error while the new kernel is booting: EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock mount: error 22 mounting ext3 pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 Of course this leads to kernel panic a few steps later since the init program cant be found. I have never had any problems mounting ext3 filesystems earlier, not with the standard kernel in the original download version of RH 7.2, or with the p...

...clude (some of) these patches in the canonical version, that makes it easier for me to track future improvements in klibc. The kinit rewrite stays a bit closer to the nfsroot.txt kernel documentation, does a fallback from TCP to UDP to NFSv2 if needed, and handles only NFS: no mounting of /sys, no pivotroot, no searching for root file systems other than NFS. This should make it play nicer with the rest of the initrd; I can post it if anyone has a use for this. But I digress. The following patches need extra attention: ** avoid exit on valid usage in nfsmount This one makes it possible to...

..., I/O limit 4294967295Mb (mask 0xffffffffffffffff) blk: queue c05021c0, I/O limit 4294967295Mb (mask 0xffffffffffffffff) Loading jbd.o module Journalled Block Device driver loaded Loading ext3.o module Creating block devices Creating root device Mounting root filesystem mount: error 6 mounting ext3 pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 umount /initrd/proc failed: 2 Freeing unused kernel memory: 232k freed Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.? ############### Also, when it does the Partition Check, it sits there for about 30 seconds. Any ideas? Jam...

...ure the kernel-source RPM using 'xconfig'. After rebooting the system, it seems that my whole ext3 file system is corrupted. I get the message: Mounting root filesystem EXT3-fs: ide0(3,3):couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (200 0200). mount: error 22 mounting ext3 pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd_ failed: 2 Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel (system hangs.......) At this point I decided to boot from the CDROM and go into "linux rescue" mode. The rescue mode tried to mount...

...and mad) errors while booting: EXT3_fs error (device hda4): ext3_check_descriptors: Blockbitmap for group 0 not in group (block 41471)! EXT3_fs: group descriptors corrupted mount: error 22 mounting ext3flags defaults well, retrying without the options flags and repeats this again twice; then: pivotroot:pivot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed:2 umont /initrd/sys failed: 2 umont /initrd/proc failed: 2 Initrd finished Freeing unused kernel memory: 240 K freed Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel and it freezes Booting with Knoppix 3.2 it mounts all...

...s kernel is version 2.4.18-18.7.xcustom ERROR: /bin/insmod exited abnormally! mounting /proc filesystem Creating root device mounting root filesystem kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k ext3, errno = 2 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k freeext3, errno = 2 mount: error 19 mounting ext3 pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 Freeing unused kernel memory: 292k freed kernel panic: No init found. Looking forward for a timely and valuable help. Thanks and regards, Vijay _________________________________________________________________ Cricket World Cup 2003- News, Views...

...the Up2date program). Today i used Up2date (version 2.7.11) to > > upgrade to 2.4.9-21 (kernel, headers and source). I get the following > > error while the new kernel is booting: > > > > EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock > > mount: error 22 mounting ext3 > > pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 > > Do you have an "/initrd" root directory? If not, make one. > > Cheers, > Stephen Actually, you should check to see if you used to have an EXT3 file system, and maybe the journal got clobbered somehow (effectively no...

...but I tried that anyway. It was mounted wrong (e.g. the /root directory was symbolic link to non-existing file). When I wanted to boot from the RedHat again, these errors occured: ... Mounting root filesystem EXT3: failed to open journal device unknown-block(0,0):-19 mount: error 22 mounting ext3 pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. I tried to boot from CD and run fsck but only the error message changed: ... EXT3: failed to open journal device unknown-block(2,3) Does anyon...

...disk was mounted bad (for example the /root directory seemed to be symbolic link to a non-existing file). When I wanted to boot from the RedHat again, these error messages occured: ... Mounting root filesystem EXT3: failed to open journal device unknown-block(0,0):-19 mount: error 22 mounting ext3 pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. I tried to boot from CD and run fsck but only the error message changed: EXT3: failed to open journal device unknown-block(2,3) Does anybody h...

...s kernel is version 2.4.18-18.7.xcustom ERROR: /bin/insmod exited abnormally! mounting /proc filesystem Creating root device mounting root filesystem kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k ext3, errno = 2 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k freeext3, errno = 2 mount: error 19 mounting ext3 pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 Freeing unused kernel memory: 292k freed kernel panic: No init found. If I compile it with ext3 in the core kernel instead of as a module the file system mounts OK and their is no kernel panic - but I still get the error messages where insmod exit...

...o module insmod: QM_MODULES: ERROR: /bin/insmod exited abnormally! Mounting /proc filesystem Creating block devices failed to create /dev/hda failed to create /dev/hda1 failed to create /dev/hda2 Creating root device mkrootdev: mknod failed: 30 Mounting root filesystem mount: error 2 mounting ext3 pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 umount /initrd/proc failed: 2 Kernel panic - not syscing: Attempted to kill init! 2. This issue is irrespective of issue 1. I was wondering how I would be spawning the real init after the real_root_dev has been mounted.... In the normal booting case(...

Here I don't want to start a discussion, but rather share a *solution* that took me some days to come up with. The whole stuff started with a power-outage. After reboot, my server (ext3) came back with the dreaded file system error (Ctrl-D to reboot or password for maintenance) - if you've never seen this, consider yourself lucky! In any case, I did the fsck as prescribed, but abandoned