Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] new testing releases uploaded

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> I am presently using 1.2.10-i686-SMP. I tried with the new
> 1.3.4-i586-2007-12-27 but at boot time I got this ugly message:
> 
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

After google'ing for the error, I learned:

"not syncing" simply means that it didn't write anything to the disk.
So basically all we know is there was a kernel panic, but not why.

Any previous error messages would be of great help.  

In some cases it turns out the machine had bad memory.  It would be good
if you could run memtest for awhile to rule that out.

Other solutions involved passing other parameters to the kernel, like:
#linux pci=nosort text

But we're just guessing without further info.

 - BS