Hello, list. Today I have been having some problems getting a 2.2.18 Kernel working. I have downloaded the Speakup v-0.10 source, and have successfully applied the patch to the Linux 2.2.18 Kernel source tree. However, while building the bzImage I have been getting some warnings, and then after word as might be expected the kernel will boot but then go into Kernel panic. I have been trying to boot it off of a boot disk just for this vary reason. I don't want to kill my working 2.2.16 Kernel until I know the 2.2.18 will work. If I believe the exact error was: "root file system not found at 03-02." How do I direct the Kernel to /dev/hda1 I tried the Linux root=/dev/hda1 command for some reason it is still giving me that error. Thanks for any help you might have.