On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 22:32, Colin wrote: > Well, I finally fixed that annoying kernel panic problem and got Gentoo > to boot on my computer! > > I fixed it by removing the hard drive that I had planned to install > Gentoo on. The kernel booted perfectly. Whenever I put the hard drive > back in, though, I get the "Attempted to kill init" kernel panic. So > I'm still in a quandry. Any guessed as to why Gentoo doesn't like my > hard drive (Seagate Barracuda ST360021A, 60.0 GB IDE)?
Has that drive ever had a Microsoft filesystem on it? I had a drive I had to zero out before it would partition and format correctly in Linux. It would cause all sorts of mysterious errors before I zeroed out the drive. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX bs=512 -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- [email protected] mailing list
