No bootloader -- 2.6.4-1.303.i386 is it me?

[Tom Mitchell]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 10:36:30AM -0800, Tom Mitchell wrote:
> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 10:36:30 -0800
> From: Tom Mitchell <mitch48 at sbcglobal.net>
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: No bootloader -- 2.6.4-1.303.i386 is it me?
> Reply-To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> 
> On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 12:20:29PM -0500, Moose wrote:
> > 
> > Im getting the same thing. Since no root is defined n the bootloader I
> > get kernel panic.
> > On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 11:57, Tom Mitchell wrote:
> > > 2.6.4-1.303 does not seem to get the boot loader stuff correct.
> > > Is it just me?
> 
> Thanks for the sanity check.... it is now reported in bugzilla (Bug#: 119874).
> 
    Dave Jones updated in another thread
    On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 21:26, Michael A. Peters wrote:
    > kernel-2.6.4-1.303 panic's my box before mounting root filesystem.
    > Something about memory.
    >
    > kernel-2.6.4-1.300 boots just dandy.
    >
    > Since root hasn't mounted when panic occurs, there really no info I can
    > get as nothing has been logged - but this is the _first_ kernel panic
    > I've had in Linux since 2.2 days.
                                                                              
    boot with vdso=0 and it'll very likely go away.
    Should be fixed in the next build that goes out.
    
As reported in another thread appending  vdso=0 to the boot line 
boots the kernel (thanks to  Dave Jones).

So now I am up and running  
   2.6.4-1.303 #1 Thu Apr 1 09:24:32 EST 2004 i686 athlon i386 

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