Thanks for your reply! After grub load kernel and initrd , it get around root filesystem mounting , but failed with no finding root device ,from which kernel and initrd have been located . ls /dev/ ; there is no disk device node . Why? _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies