Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: > 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 ?
Or the module could be in the initrd -- should be. Also, be sure you have root= in your append line. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com