Hi, I'm trying to compile a kernel for my 8.2 system. I thought that I would try 2.6.9, but It won't mount the root filesystem. I use grub and here is my entry in grub title linux-2.6.9 kernel (hd0,2)/boot/bzImage-2.6.9 root=/dev/hda3 showopts splash=silent I also use reiserfs 3.6 which I compiled into the kernel to eliminate any problem I might have with using an initrd. I get the following error just after it tries to mount the filesystem ide failed opcode was: unknown ide0 reset: success hda read_intr: status=0x59 { Driveready SeekComplete DataRequestError} hda read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound } LDAsect=116966416 sector=116966416 Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown block (3,3) I haven't done this for a long time, but thought I'd like to try out the preemptive kernel. I have also upgraded: (installed) module-init-tools - module-init-tools 3.0-pre10 I couldn't get anything using reiserfsck -V 2>&1|grep reiserfsprogs, but reiserfsck -V gives 3.6.4. Everything else is >= to the minimum versions specified. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Oh and build process: 1. make bzImage 2. make modules 3. make modules_install 4. copy image and system map to /boot. Regards Jeff