Hi Well it doesn't work with root=LABEL=/ either .. though the custom kernel (compiled from a rh rpm source file does .. indicating to me some problem in the way I compiled the linux2.6.0test4 code ... I compiled in lvm support .. though did not include raid support .. I presume one can take the latest kernel disto from kernel.org and put it in usr/src and compile and install it (it upgrades grub automatically to include the new kernel as a boot option) and this is transparent to the red hat distro. or are there rh specific switches? re /dev/hda5 possibility this is not addressed in the custom installation which does run .. and the boot and kernel directories shopuld be the same for the new kernel. Thanks Stephen

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root (hd0,2) # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.0-test4 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.0-test4 ro root=/dev/hda3 hdc=ide-scsi initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.0-test4.img

You have /dev/hda3 here. What does it do with root=LABEL=/ ?

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/dev/hda3 1251 1301 409657+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 1302 7296 48154837+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 1302 3851 20482843+ 8e Linux LVM

It seems /dev/hda3 is your /boot not your root drive. Perhaps the entry above should be /dev/hda5?

Cheers

Philip Murray - Systems Engineer webmaster(a)open2view.com - Open2view.com www.open2view.com

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