Bug 365783 - LiveCD KDE - kernel panic
Summary: LiveCD KDE - kernel panic
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE 11.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Kernel (show other bugs)
Version: Alpha 2
Hardware: x86-64 openSUSE 10.3
: P2 - High : Critical with 1 vote (vote)
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Reported: 2008-02-28 22:17 UTC by Marek Sebera
Modified: 2008-04-30 19:30 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Marek Sebera 2008-02-28 22:17:37 UTC 
When I try to boot linux kernel from LiveCD with KDE, so i get Boot menu without graphics and bad linked (the kernel names linux not Live-System) and after that, when i boot linux, i got a kernel panic message:
Kernel panic: not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root on block(8) or "unknown-block(0,0)".
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Comment 1 Josef Reidinger 2008-04-18 07:51:32 UTC 
still present in Beta1.
Bad help text (Live-System instead of linux) is really confusing.
Kernel panic also still present.
Comment 2 Matthias Fehring 2008-04-18 13:09:34 UTC 
Yes, it is still present in Beta1. The text is confusing and using "linux" to start the system leads to the Kernel panic.
BUT: it works, if you wait a short time. Then the system starts automatically and runs without Kernel panic.
Comment 3 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2008-04-24 02:40:34 UTC 
So is this still a problem?  That's not a kernel "panic" it is just not finding the root disk properly.  Yet you say it then does work properly if you just wait a bit.

Confused...
Comment 4 Josef Reidinger 2008-04-24 11:57:05 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3 from Greg Kroah-Hartman)
> So is this still a problem?  That's not a kernel "panic" it is just not finding
> the root disk properly.  Yet you say it then does work properly if you just
> wait a bit.
> 
> Confused...
> 

When you wait when choosing kernel image, then live CD start.
If you type linux (as kernel image) loading end with kernel panic.
Comment 5 Bessieres Marc 2008-04-24 21:49:30 UTC 
as the hardware field in the report is written as x86-64, I report that I have the same behavior on a plain x86:
- option Live-System doesn't exist
- typing linux leads to kernel panic
- typing enter makes the kernel to load ok
Comment 6 Dominik Platz 2008-04-27 12:13:01 UTC 
I can confirm comment #5 with Beta 1 (kde live cd 32-bit)
Comment 7 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2008-04-28 17:43:08 UTC 
So there is no real kernel "bug" here, we just aren't finding the boot partition, correct?  If so, this is a live cd issue, not a kernel issue.

Please try the latest versions of the live cd that was just remastered.
Comment 8 Dominik Platz 2008-04-28 20:31:53 UTC 
Hi Greg
where can I download a newer version than Beta1?

Dominik
Comment 9 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2008-04-28 20:39:09 UTC 
See the announcement on the opensuse-factory mailing list.
Comment 10 Stephan Kulow 2008-04-30 19:30:15 UTC 
I claim this is fixed with beta2.