Hi Uwe, > It makes sure the splash screen start as early as possible (don't forget the > "quiet" option). On my systems, it starts immediately after the kernel and > the initrd are loaded. > > Kernel panic ... hm ... > > How did you generate your initrd? Maybe, it doesn't contain "linuxrc" which > does all the magic before it hands over to the real init process.
i've created the initrd as indicated in the howto mentioned above, that is with: # splash_geninitramfs -g /boot/fbsplash-emergence-1024x768 -v -r 1024x768 emergence MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list