Phil Sexton wrote:
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
I put the three Linux partitions on it and a 1 GB FAT32 at the end of
the disk in Windows with PartitionMagic 8. I'll zero it out, but it
will have to be done in Windows, because I can't boot Linux with it in.
--
Colin
--
[email protected] mailing list
