Bug 39294 – Kernel Panic upon first bootup

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Rob 2004-01-24 16:48:02 UTC]

There is a config error on your Grub boot loader config, and there is a thread in your forums which highlights this.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=80805&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=kernel+panic+attempted+kill+init

it says you updated the online docs, but this link below has not been changed:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml#doc_chap23


once I removed the following:

# If you're using a recent genkernel, use something like this:
title=My Example Gentoo Linux (recent genkernel)
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-KV root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/hda3 init=/linuxrc
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-KV


to this:

# If you're using a recent genkernel, use something like this:
title=My Example Gentoo Linux (recent genkernel)
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-KV root=/dev/hda3 init=/linuxrc
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-KV


it booted up with causing the kernel panic.

Just thought I would let you know....



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. following your install doc
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
kernel panic

Expected Results:  
boot up

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2004-04-12 11:47:03 UTC]

grub docs have been updated a few times afaik ...

[Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-03-25 11:25:12 UTC]

Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux".

I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers,
this is the only reasonable way to do this.