Hi, Forgive me for the noise, but ... I am having trouble getting custom kernels to boot. One system is an old Toshiba laptop (Satellite 2775XDVD) running Fedora 9 and the other is a PowerMac G5 running YellowDog 6. Kernel is 2.6.27. I am starting to suspect the problem is udev. So ... Kevin's stupid question of the day: Does udev REQUIRE the use of an initrd root during boot to be able to find things like the console and the real root device? Doc pointers welcome. I am trying to switch the satellite from the new fangled libata driver to the old ide driver which I suspect might be faster (or smaller). kevin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html