FC3 Kernel Panic - not syncing with old recompiled kernel

[Timothy Murphy]

James Wilkinson wrote:

> Admin wrote:
>> I've just upgraded from FC2 -> FC3 and I'm having trouble compiling a
>> working kernel.
>> My old 2.6.8.1 kernel which was compiled under FC2 works just fine
>> under FC3, but when I recompile it under FC3 I get the following
>> errors:
>> 
>> Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel
>> audit(1101046871.4294965592:0): inititalized
>> Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting
>> mkrootdev: label /1 not found
>> mount: error 2 mounting ext3
>> mount: error 2 mounting none
>>  switchroot:  mount failed:  22
>>  umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
>>  Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

Did you include the Filesystem=>tempfs option when compiling?

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