> kjournald starting Commit interval 5 seconds > VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly > Freeing unused kernel memory: 168k freed > (keyboard still echoed onscreen, disk parked) > > Adding init=/bin/bash is no better. So its the user space which is broken. Make sure the user space has the right /dev etc - and is for the right CPU - a 200MHz pentium means you need i386 or i586 binaries. i686/athlon binaries would produce the effect you report. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html