Nick Gawronski said the following on Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 04:45:31PM -0500: > Hi, I am trying to make a kernel with speakup witch lets me load > compressed root floppy disks like installation root disks in to a ram disk > like slackware 8.0. I am using kernel 2.4.10 and have ramdisk, ramdisk > initrd, ext2, msdos, fat, vfat, umsdos, ext2, iso9660 and all of the > standerd stuff in a rescue disk kernel. My root disk works with the > slackware boot disk but I want to build my own kernel with the speakup cut > and paste features which the slackware boot disk does not have. When I > boot this kernel and the root device is set on /dev/fd0 it panics with > vfs, unable to mount root fs on 02:00. What could I be doing wrong to > cause this when the slackware boot disk works but mine does not? bye Did you use the scripts that slackware has to build a boot disk? Also, did you use the old config file that comes with the default kernel? Try these things in case you have not. -- Raul A. Gallegos mailto:raul at asmodean.net http://www.asmodean.net For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals.. Then something happened, which unleashed the power of our imagination... We learned to talk... Pink Floyd - The Division Bell