Further ideas : I tried booting a Gentoo kernel with the Ubuntu / & avoided the kernel panic, but ran into an Ubuntu init error, so there's nothing inherently wrong with /dev/sda8 .
Also, I checked the Ubuntu kernel config file, conveniently in /boot , which has ReiserFS configured as a module, whereas Ext2 & Ext3 are 'y'. That suggests that it's running into a road-block: it needs to use ReiserFS to start 'init', but can't load modules till it has already started 'init'. In that case, I need to re-install Ubuntu using Ext2 or Ext3 . In fact, it wb as a bug in Ubuntu's "advanced" install. Does that make sense to anyone else ? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
