Kernel panic on startup: 'Try to kill idle task'

[Andreas Maresch <andreas@aon.at>]

Hello everybuddy! (or so ;-D)

I have a big problem.
Today I tryed to boost a (SuSE, I admit) linux box.
But since then it doesn't boot.
It just hangs on bootup with the kernel panik 'Tryed to kill the idle 
task'.Unfortunatly, I have not the faintest idea what else I can do.
Until now I tried the following:
o Undo everything I tampered with (start hdparm, added "append=" 
command in lilo.conf)
o Reinstalled the kernel

Can anybody help me and give me help where I can get information from 
(/var/log/?? perhaps)?


Thanx in advanc

Andreas Maresch