I haven't had any problem with Kernel 2.2.19-10mdk on LM8.0 booting, until now, after adding the most recent updates. Every time I boot the system, the following error occurs: Checking root filesystem /dev/hdb1 is mounted. Cannot continue, aborting. Failed to check filesystem. Do you want to repair the errors? (beware, you can loose data) Whether I answer yes, y, no, or no, the system takes me to a prompt to login for maintenance. Each time I logged in, I remounted the root drive in read-only mode and ran "e2fsck -fv [device]" or "fsck.ext2 -fv [device]" and received the same output -- nothing wrong with the system. Next I would use control-d and the computer would reboot and repeat. So, on one such boot I entered init 3 after logging in and the computer continued on its way loading everything. After the console prompt appeared, I typed exit. Everything is working perfectly. In fact, I'm writing this message in X, connected to the ISP, and noting is wrong. But, if I reboot . . . it will repeat the same mistake. How can this issue be repaired? -- Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list/newsgroup address and my email address in To:. ********************************************************************* Signed, SoloCDM - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html