After upgrading to the following rawhide RPMs I can boot a 2.5 kernel created using 'make rpm'. I also can use 'root=LABEL=/' in grub.conf. Thanks for the help initscripts-7.24-2.src.rpm mkinitrd-3.4.52-2.src.rpm modutils-2.4.25-2.src.rpm Tony -- Anthony Joseph Seward <anthony.seward@xxxxxxxx>