Hi, all I have a Linux box (Linux Slackware 9.1, uname -r --> 2.4.22), with two SCSI Seagate hard disks, I have software RAID1 running. Everything is OK. So I try to precompile the kernel make clean make oldconfig // use this in order to not to have mistake in configuration. // this is running kernel configuration make dep, make, make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install, make install cp new image in /boot, add new image in lilo, run lilo, reboot The error: Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount fs on 09:00 I don't know if I explained it right. Any help is appriciated P.S. Sorry for my bad english - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html