er, help! Last night I shut down my main machine. This morning I turned it on, and discovered that no matter what, it would not "unmount the initrd" and mount the "/" filesystem rw, only ro. I booted from the first CD (9.0) in rescue mode, backed up a few gig of data to another machine. I could not get any thing more useful than what I stated in the first pargraph out of the /var/log/* for debugging purposes, however. At first I decided to simply transition to the second machine, but after moving the sound card over to it, I discover that it does not power up correctly. (bad day for working with computers, it seems) So back to the first machine: before I simply try to reinstall, does anyone have any clever suggestions to rescue that one? For what it is worth, it was running 9.0, GRUB, one disk. I saw nothing in the boot messages (as they scrolled by) from ext3 about needing to fsck, etc. And once mounted from the rescue boot (mount /dev/hda3 /mnt; cd /mnt; chroot /mnt) I suffered no ill effects during usage. Thanks in advance. Michael Fischer