I'm assuming you're using a 1.44 mb floppy drive along with 1.44 mb floppies. I'm also assuming your boot disk comes from the bootdsks.144 directory. If all of this is true, then I am stumped on trying to figure out why your root disk bombs. Greg On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 04:23:29PM -0500, Rodney wrote: > Another update guys and gals. > > I moved the Doubletalk LT and tried the boot and root disks on another > computer. This computer came up talking in about 30 seconds (much > better than the other computer - maybe bad floppy drive). I inserted > the root disk and pressed enter but still came up with the same errors. > > So I used rawrite windows version to put color.gz onto a different > floppy again. This time I used a laptop to make the floppy. > > I tried the boot and root disks on the faster responding computer and > still came up with the same errors. Errors are listed below again. > > (error message) > UMSDOS: msdos_read_super failed, mount aborted. > > (error message) > Invalid session number or type of track > Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 02:1c > > Thanks for any help. > rodney > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup