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Kernel Panic with menuconfig as possible solution

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Vicis

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Jan 29, 2004
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Hi everyone,

I got an easy question for you. I'm trying to update my Linux kernel and I want to use the same configuration as my current working kernel. I need this because during compilation of the kernel, I get the following messages:

Warning: Unable to open on initial console.
Kernel Panic: No init found Try passing init = option to kernel.

Note, I have lilo configured with a new initrd .img for the new kernel. I know that it has to do with the menuconfig stuff because I added ext3 fs support (apparently was disabled by default) and when I recompiled and restarted, it got a little farther than it previously did, though it still panicked later. Thanks for the help!

- John
 
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