Topic: Boot Failure after Fresh Install

[jfabate]

I just bought a Wintergreen barebones system from Tiger Direct. It has a 3.0 GHz P-4, 512 MB Memory, onboard NIC, onboard sound and onboard video. I have installed two MAXTOR 120 GB IDE drives, each as a Master on the primary and secondary IDE channels, respectively. I selected to use both in a RAID setup. I install 6.01 without any apparent problems and then when I try to boot, it dies with a final message "Kernel panic: attempted to kill init!"

Any ideas why this is happening?

I tried disabling most of the onboard items, but still the same problem.

Thanks,
John

[guest22]

hmmm, did you check the media e.g. the downloaded ISO?

What does the boot sequense say BEFORE the kernel panic? Does it match you setup?