A new part of the new kernel panic mystery.

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

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Just when I had thought I had dealt with all the kernel panics that are init
generated a new one appears. Could any one explain this:
We created the initrd..img with the --with=ext3 option. We are using the 
2.4.9-12 686 kernel.
When we reboot the ext3 module is loaded and journalling seems to start. Then
we get the message:
pivot root: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
Freeing unused kernel memory: 224 K freed

Kernel Panic No init found.

So what happened here?
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I posted the above to the seawolf list and someone suggested that the
/initrd directory might be the problem. Which left me with a mystery.
Some of our machines have this directory and some do not. On some the
directory is empty on some machines it is not. So some questions:
1. What is this directory and where does it come from?
2. What does an empty directory signify vs. one with files?
3. Can the absence of this directory cause the error above? I believe that
the machine this occurred on did not have a /initrd directory.
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Aaron Konstam
Computer Science
Trinity University
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San Antonio, TX 78212-7200

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