Further to my recent post enclosed is my grub.conf and a list of the partitions on my disk ... the custom kernel ..2nd option loads fine but the new 2.6 kernel crashes when it tries to access root / .. despite the entry being pretty well identical to that of the custom kernel. Any comments appreciated Stephen # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. # root (hd0,2) # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3 # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=1 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Linux (2.6.0-test4) 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 title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-19.9.acpi.5custom) root (hd0,2) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-19.9.acpi.5custom ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-19.9.acpi.5custom.img title DOS rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 4 32098+ de Dell Utility /dev/hda2 * 5 1250 10008495 7 HPFS/NTFS /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 /dev/hda6 3852 6401 20482843+ 8e Linux LVM /dev/hda7 6402 6655 2040223+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda8 6656 7296 5148801 8e Linux LVM