On Saturday 03 March 2007 17:16, you wrote:

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Are you sure your boot loader is booting what you think it is booting? It sounds like you have something else there, a ghost from the past of some sort

Sure sounds like it. Thats why I decided to do a full install, reformatting /

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Are you using grub or lilo?

Grub (default) There is no other OS on this machine.

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I would double check the boot loader installation if I were you

Sounds like a good idea, but on the other hand, I assume Grub only loads the kernel. The kernel loads fine.

It loads the kernel and initrd. The point being that the kernel panics on loading bash, and this only happens in the initrd. I can see no other place for it to panic just because bash won't run. Which is why I'm thinking maybe it isn't loading properly. Note also that 10.1 and 10.2 doesn't install the boot loader to the master boot record by default. They install to the root partition, and make it active, and rely on the default master boot record to boot the active partition. If you have an older boot loader installed in the MBR, it could be loading just about anything

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but if I boot from DVD and then select boot from harddisk, the kenel is loaded from DVD (right?),

Depends on where you select it. If you select it from the initial boot splash screen on the DVD, then it's wrong. That will just transfer control to the boot loader on the hard drive, there is no difference from not having a DVD at all There is another option though, if you start the installation program, you will get to the point where it asks you what you want to do (install/upgrade/boot installed system). If at that point you select "boot installed system", it will use the kernel from the DVD. Perhaps you can try that and see what happens -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org