Hi, On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:03:58PM -0400, David Chase wrote: > Ok, there's obviously something really dumb that I'm missing and I'll probably feel like an ass when someone points it out. Yes, I'm afraid so. :-) > Oh well, here goes. I executed the following: > $ 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" You made an initrd, but didn't tell lilo to load it, so the ext3 module in the initrd is naturally being totally ignored! You need to add an "initrd=" line to the lilo entry for this image. Cheers, Stephen