On Jul 13, 2006, at 3:34 AM, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
Yes, I have filed bug report #375035. The kernel panics claiming that it can't find the root device, but the evidence is that it doesn't even *try* to use the initramfs before it does this. (no freeing memory message, for instance).
As I said, my production bootloader is BootX (for reasons that aren't worth going into here) so this may not be appropriate for you:
I "solved" this problem by telling BootX, in it's "additional kernel arguments" dialog box, that "root=/dev/hde10" (Obviously you will have to use the appropriate device designation for your machine.
Rick