>> there are no initrd= lines in my lilo.conf. At first boot I get a >kernel> panic.
>is it an upgrade? or an install on a non-formatted /boot ? >(more precisely occured when the initrd existed prior to DrakX) >i've fixed a bug that way today, will upload this evening (< 6 hours) clean install, format reiser prior to install, I need to ckeck the log... here: * starting step `formatPartitions' * formatting device hda8 (type Journalised FS: ReiserFS) * running: mkreiserfs -ff /dev/hda8 mkreiserfs, 2002 - reiserfsprogs 3.6.2mkreiserfs: Guessing about desired format. . mkreiserfs: Kernel 2.4.18-23mdkBOOT is running. Initializing journal - 0%....20%....40%....60%....80%....100% failed to genetate UUID Format 3.6 with standard journal Count of blocks on the device: 1102452 Number of blocks consumed by mkreiserfs formatting process: 8245 Blocksize: 4096 Hash function used to sort names: "r5" Journal Size 8193 blocks (first block 18) Journal Max transaction length 1024 inode generation number: 0 UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 Syncing..ok the initrd is there and the symlink to it is there too I'll put in some more logging to bootloader.pm, must be a reason why there's no value of {initrd} - Mark