On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 18:13:19 -0800 (PST) Josh <islifefun1975@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm running FC6 on a Dual Xeon with Intel ESB2 IDE SATA chip with only one SATA drive. I'm compiling 2.6.20 kernel and I get ... > > "mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'" Make sure you work from the .config of the supplied kernel as a reference including initrd support. If you've done that then after building the kernel the mkinitrd tool should build a valid initrd for the new kernel Alan