David Chase wrote: > $ mkinitrd -v -f initrd-2.4.7-10smp.img 2.4.7-10smp > > It executes without a hitch and reports that ext3 has been loaded. Then I run lilo and it too executes without a hitch. Here is my lilo.conf: > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10smp > label=Linux > read-only > root=/dev/hda1 > append="hdd=ide-scsi" Hi, You are missing initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.7-10smp.img in lilo.conf. Liu