I got errors in the arlan wireless module and something else, forget what, but had to remove them and compile. Everything went smooth, but after editing lilo.conf and running lilo -v and rebooting, I get a 'kernel panic - no init found' after it failed to mount my filesystem (reiserfs). The error was (this is from memory and not verbatim, but very close):

Cannot mount reiserfs with those flags. Trying no flags.
Well, ok, trying read-only with no flags.
mount: Error 6 cannot mount local filesystem

Then it goes a few more lines until the kernel panic, which, of course is cannot find init since my filesystem is not mounted.
I did a 'man mount' and there is no 'Error 6' listed. I found out by Googling that Error 6 is "No such device or address". Here is my entry in /etc/lilo.conf:


and /dev/hda1's entry in /etc/fstab:

/dev/hda1 / reiserfs notail 1 1


I wonder if it's the 5th and 6th fields that the new kernel doesn't like? Anyone else have any ideas?

Steve

while waiing for a better reply, I am on dial up so havent tried 2.6 however these may help

http://www.namesys.com/install_v4.html

http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/799

http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.txt

codemonkey may be your first read?

2.6 has new/diff pkgs for mods/initrd. I think one is called mod-init-tools but check our own cooker mirror here. It has them. Sucks really, I tried it and it didn't work worth a flip for my sys....tons of errrors. It's fun getting the old modutils and initrd stuff installed so you can boot back to the old kernel If you have the hd space, do 2.6 in a separate test install.