I would however like to see something that says "If you have no modules you don't need an initrd". And your error message does say you can't mount the root fs. The unknown-block(3,3) bit of the kernel panic is interesting aswell. If i knew what device/partition that refers to it might help but i don't. Maybe someone on the list knows whether 3,3 relates to /dev/hda3 or not. You could also possibly change the filesystem to ext2 temporarily and see if that makes any odds.
I always used monolithic kernels for servers and never need mkinitrd for the kernel series 2.4.x. I do not know regarding 2.6.x. Does anyone know how to turn on debug messages on boot? Many thanks, Miguel - : 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