I tried "boot=/dev/hda3" with the same result.
Oops, typo. That's "root" not "boot". I should have said that I tried "root=/dev/hda3" as a boot option but it still complains that it cannot open root device on "hda3" on 03:03. To summarize, I can't boot after yesterday's power failure. Same kernel I've been running successfully for a long time. I can boot an old SuSE 7.3 system on /dev/hdb, mount /dev/hda3, and everything looks like it's there. I booted the recovery system on the installation CD and ran reiserfsck, which reported no errors. I'm using GRUB, not LILO, if that matters. I don't really want to re-install everything, but that's what I'm looking at if I can't resolve this today. Any help will be greatly appreciated. /john -- John Wilkes john at wilkes dot com