both the genkernel and my own kernels land on this message a meere second or so after boot. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot genkernel/otherkernel from grub with ANY options (noacpi acpi=off noapm nodma noscsi nosmp) or no options. 2. sit back and wait 3. presto Actual Results: Process swapper (pid:1, thread-blablablabla Stack: 00000280 -------- Call Trace: sysfs_add_file ... kernel_thread_helper Code: 14 85 ----- <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Expected Results: booted and showed me a nice login prompt The computer is a laptop (Medion MID2020) with a pentium m 4 2,8ghz cpu, 512mb ram, sis650 gfx. Haven't really emerged anything yet. Compiled with O2 optimz. I have absolutely no idea what is going on. my other computer is also a gentoo system (this one), and it works just fine. It has to be some kind of hardware-related software thing ;P
Which kernel version is this? Please post "emerge --info" output.
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