[PlanetCCRMA] Audio kernel install problem (continued)

[Jeffrey Roach]

Hello,
  I chose whatever the default is.  I think it is
ext3?
I thought the Plug and Play thing might be wrong but I
have tried booting with it off without success.

Jeff

--- Mark Knecht <markknecht@attbi.com> wrote:
> Jeff,
>    Did you choose ext2 or ext3? I have heard that
> it's a mistake to choose
> ext3 during the install. It's a journaling file
> system and the install
> doesn't work. I thin you want to make sure you
> choose ext2, then use maybe
> 'tune2fs' to convert it from ext2 to ext3.
> 
>    I ask this because of line 4 of the messages
> below.
> 
>    Also, why no swap partition? I'd suggest using
> Disk Druid during the
> install, making the Linux partition 4GB, use a 768MB
> swap (2 * memory), but
> definitely have a swap. I think you need that to get
> this fixed.
> 
>    Last thing, I think Linux prefers Plug and Play
> be off in BIOS. I'm not
> sure if Windows cares.
> 
>    Very strange set of problems.
> 
> Mark
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: planetccrma-admin@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
> [mailto:planetccrma-admin@ccrma.Stanford.EDU]On
> Behalf Of Jeffrey Roach
> Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 8:47 PM
> To: planetccrma@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
> Subject: [PlanetCCRMA] Audio kernel install problem
> (continued)
> 
> 
> Hello,
>   I used WXP Defrag to get those files moved to the
> front of the disk and then re-sized below the 1024th
> cylinder with fips.
>   The Red Hat Installer was not giving the boot
> warning messages during install afterwards.
>   I installed Apt and updated via Red Hats update
> and
> then Red Planet's.  Without my asking, it updated
> the
> kernel also.
>   When I reboot, I still have the same problem. 
> Here
> is the error message,
> 
> mounting root filesystem
> kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k
> block-major-33 errno=2
> mount: error 6 mounting ext 3
> pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot, sysroot/initrd)
> failed: 2
> freeing unused kernel memory: 152k freed
> kernel panic: no init found
> try passing init= option to kernel
> 
>   All those files you mentioned are in /boot.
> 
> Thank you for any help.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
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