On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Jason Thomas wrote: > no its a DAC960 raid controller. Yes, but if you're using devfs, the paths may be different. > your problem could be because your fstab was wrong? or you didn't have > devfs mounted, which can be setup to do so automatically when you > compile the kernel or by a command line option to the kernel! Doesn't matter - if it's panicking, the fstab contents don't even come into the picture. That means it can't even mount its root fs to start init. Have you tried passing the root device as a hex value (first 2 digits major, second 2 minor) instead, to see what happens? That completely bypasses any device-path parsing issues. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School | #linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net) | #linuxOS on OPN _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub