Hey Mulyadi, > It acts as initial root filesystem containing modules needed to > proceed into complete successful booting e.g loading ext3 kernel > module to access real filesystem, loading LVM modules in case your > root filesystem stays inside LVM etc etc My root file system is ext3 and I have it compiled into the kernel. But when I don't give an initrd, then mounting of the root file system fails during boot, I get something like "VFS: Unable to mount root filesystem on block 0,0: Kernel Panic" Any idea why? Thanks, -Joel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ