new kernel

[Harvey Ussery]

Sounds to me as if you need to update your yaboot.conf to boot your new 
kernel. Can you post your /etc/yaboot.conf as it currently exists? 
Basically, I suspect, you need to config yaboot.conf so that the first 
boot image reflects the new kernel, with the old boot image in second 
place as a failsafe.

--Harvey

Martin Patrick wrote:

>I downloaded a kernel from the bitkeeper website, its version number is
>2.4.23.  The YDL installed kernel was 2.4.20-8d.  I followed the
>instructions exactly as the How To on the Yellow Dog Support site
>describes the process.  And now, whenever I try to boot linux, it goes
>for a bit and then I get an error, which reads:
>
>mount: error 19 mounting ext3
>pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
>unmount /initrd/proc failed: 2
>Freeing unused Kernel memory 168k init 4k chrp 36k prep
>Kernel panic: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel
>(0) Rebooting in 180 seconds
>
>I downloaded a MacOSX System Preferance Pane that allows my linux
>partition to be mounted in OSX and I looked in the /boot folder on that
>partition and there is a file called initrd-2.4.20-8d.img.  I'm very new
>to the Linux scene, but I think that file is the problem.  And looking
>in the yaboot.conf file I can see it lists this file with the line
>initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8d.img.  But there is also a file called
>yaboot.conf.old that is overall different from the yaboot.conf.  
>
>Anyway, like I said I'm a newbie to all this.  It's not vitaly important
>that Linux work, it's just a hobby right now.  I think I can fix it so
>it boots using the old kernel, which is still installed properly, but I
>would like to know why this isn't booting.  Does anything I just said
>make sense to anyone?
>
>Thank you for your time and help,
>Martin Patrick
>
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