Thanks for the very speedy replies: I just tried something: to make sure the modules were being compiled correctly, I edited the makefile to: extraversion = charles this showed up in /lib/modules correctly and guess what? the kernel booted up, all the modules loaded fine, all is now well... must be module confusion... anyway, thanks Jim & The Wizard, your responses will be printed out and go in my kernel file, no doubt one day your input will save the day Charles ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles.99" <charles.99@zen.co.uk> To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 6:11 PM Subject: [SLE] Suse 8.2 kernel compile problems With Suse 7.2 I compiled kernels many time with no problem With Suse 8.2 every attempt has been a disaster, luckily I have a 2nd install on a removeable hard disk for tinkering, dabbling and learning... I've followed the Admin guide instructions to the letter, but no luck. One question: in 7.2 the "make bzlilo" seems to do more than rename the kernel to .old and copy the map file, is that an area I should look at? I am using GRUB. The latest attempt resulted in: Kernel panic:VFS:unable to mount root fs on 03:43 I compiled the reiserfs support into the kernel, not as a module. (but I have tried modules as well) so what am I doing wrong? Thanks, Charles