Compiling new kernel 2.6.21.3

[Ken Moffat]

Man-wai Chang wrote:
> Xubuntu booted with these errors:
>
> Starting up ....
> Decompressing Linux ... Ok, booting the kernel.
> Starting Ubuntu
> mount: unknow filesystem type 'devfs'
> umount: devfs: not mounted
> /scripts/ext3-add-journal.sh: 27: arith: syntax error: "0x"
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'devfs'
> /sbin/init: 426: arith: syntax error: "0x"
> [  3.712000] kernel panic - not syncing: attempted to kill init
>
> the devfs error could be ignored, but what's that ext3-add-journal thing?
>
>   

Did you regenerate a new initrd.img-2.6.21....  file? (Total Guess!)