I am getting some weird errors I've never seen after MANY installations of mandrake linux. When booting up the installer from CDROM I get a message that says "cannot mount root fs, please specify "root=" option". It then kernel panics and says cannot mouint root filesystem. I have one hard drive with two partitions and the CDROM and thats it. I've tried linux root=/dev/hda2 - The partition I want to install on. Unformated linux root=/dev/hda1 - The partition I currently have win2k on. linux root=/dev/hdb - The ISO CDROM Thats the only partitions and drives I have? I have set up many machines in the same fashion with version 6.X-7.X with no problems. I never even get to the language selection screen. Tried text mode, expert mode, etc. No luck. Any clues? Robb Cadzow Riot 730 Arizona Ave. Santa Monica CA 90401 310-434-6000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]