hi, all: i battled kernel 2.4.4 all day. i think i will declare defeat. First, i upgraded kernel from 2.4.0 to 2.4.2 using rpm from suse's website. i did lilo after rpm is done. i reboot. i got this famous 'vfs, cannot mount root fs' msg. i actually saw an article on suse's kb about the msg. but it did not help. then i downloaded the src of 2.4.4. followed instructions, everything went fine. it compiled. so copy bzImage and system.map to /boot. reboot. same error. i tried some different options in menuconfig. no. same error msg. i am using suse on a gateway 7210 server, with 1 gb of ram and 2 scsi drives on aic7xxx host adapter. ext2fs support is built in the kernel. i tried building aic7xxxx in the kernel and as a module. nothing helped. anybody else has done this before? i cannot be the only one. i searched on the net about this error. looks like a lot of people have the same problem. but, i did not see any clear solutions. thanks john wang.(beat up by kernel 2.4.4) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/