I have two operating systems Linux Mandrake 8.0 and Windows ME and i have read the how-tos and i have not found this error message anywhere and it isnt the first time it has happened. The first time it happened i ended up reformatting my hard drive ended up getting a new computer. If anybody has had this happen to them could i get a shout out on how to get LM running again. Windows Me works fine and it has the first partition on my hard drive and i used the wizard in the linux mandrake setup to auto allocate the linux partition. When I tried to reinstall linux it read no partitions on the hard drive and told me to continue at your own risk. And whenever i try to start linux up i get Kernel Panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 any help ------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for ICQmail at http://www.icq.com/icqmail/signup.html