this is odd. I ususally use "make install" when building a kernwel to take care of initrd but I noted it said this tools/build -b bbootsect bsetup compressed/bvmlinux.out CURRENT > bzImage Root device is (9, 1) Boot sector 512 bytes. Setup is 2533 bytes. System is 1098 kB warning: kernel is too big for standalone boot from floppy should I be using the "#boot=/dev/hde" in my grub.conf? My grub.con looks like this default=2 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20 ro root=/dev/md1 hdb=ide-scsi initrd /initrd-2.4.20.img title linux root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-26.8.0 ro root=/dev/md1 hdb=ide-scsi initrd /initrd-2.4.18-26.8.0.img The stock kernel boots just fine but 2.4.20 says it cannot start modprobe then dies saying cannot locate root dev @ 9,1. Ahh, help __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html