Hi, did you mean makebootdisk? yes I did that and a different kernel config file and still got the error. bye On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > 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. > > -- http://users2.ev1.net/~nick6 Home of Chihuahua Radio, the internet radio station that I run.