Just an ide. The laptop boots to txt only and in the process notifies that the reiserfs has failed. You could have one of a multitude of problems. First, boot the rescue system. Next, run reiserfsck on the file system that is failng during boot. Note that reiserfsck will not repair a mounted filesystem, so the only way to repair a reiser root filesystem is to boot using another root file system.

Then mount that filesystem and take a look at it. For example: mkdir /oldroot mount /dev/hda1 /oldroot (Assuming that you are using GRUB and that /boot is part of your root file system), take a look at the menu.lst file in /oldroot/boot/grub, and make sure that the root parameter is correct. In my example, /dev/hda1 is root: e.g.) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 .... - -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> As suggested by Mr. Feldman, run reiserfsck, also check that /boot/initrd exists as that should preload the reiserfs module. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the above help, but either I did'nt or couldn't successfully utilize it. I did however appreciate the opportunity to muck about with it. The laptop easily reinsstalled. A second unit with 9.0 was moved to a kvm switch and presented the same reiserfs failure. Again I easily get to the same "you can fix it now" point. Hmmmmm! Putzing with disk one, I wound up updating 9.0 with 9.0. A few files whose names I missed were self fixed and the update was aborted by me. Afterward booting and functions appear normal. Ellie@wam.umd.edu