Whew! I was able to recreate the initrd correctly by editing the grub lines and got it back up. I'll need to re-read the fbsplash setup and try again. -----Original Message----- From: John Dangler [mailto:jdangler@atlantic.net] Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 11:37 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] kernel panic - help! Importance: High I just tried to add fbspash to my grub.conf file and got a kernel panic on startup. I rebooted with the livecd but don't know how to get back into my gentoo environment. chroot doesn't work (can't find /bin/bash). Help.