the usual kernel panic troubles - SOLVED

**dylunio** · 08-26-2005

Originally Posted by drakebasher

dylunio, could the reiserfs be causing a problem? How does Grub know to use the stage1.5-reiserfs and not another one?

I don't see how it causes a problem since I've always booted reiserfs partitions, and never had a problem, though I'm not expert on grubs 1.5 stage since I've never had problems with it.

**d38dm8nw81k1ng** · 08-26-2005

Originally Posted by drakebasher

Try this: Get the Grub command prompt by pressing 'c' when you get the boot menu. At the Grub prompt, do 'root (hd0,0)' and then do 'kernel / <tab>'. Grub should return a list of files found in (hd0,0) and you should see in that list your kernel 'kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6'. If it isn't listed, we need to look elsewhere.

the kernel is actually kept on (hd0,2). GRUB seems to find it fine, otherwise i would get a "file not found", and it seems to load the OS, i just get a kernel panic at the point described above and the whole process freezes.

**d38dm8nw81k1ng** · 08-28-2005

ok, i edited the grub.conf to this:

Code:

 root &#40;hd0,2&#41;
kernel &#40;hd0,2&#41;/boot/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/hda3

unfortunately i get the same problem

EDIT: ok, it's definitely not GRUB because i compiled a genkernel and it all works. now i get to try and find what i forgot to compile into the kernel (woohoo).

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