Hello... My name is Darshan and I was broswing the web for a solution to my problem, when I came across a message board, which had your email addresses. I have a Pentium III 500 in which I have 2 operating systems. I have partioned my drives and I am running windows 98 as my mine and linux 7.0 as well. Everything was running perfectly fine. I had copied the loadlin.exe file and vmlinuz file to my C: directory in windows...so that when i reboot the computer into dos... i type the following command and it take me into linux... loadlin vmlinuz root=dev/hda3 everything worked fine until today...i get the following as an error...please give me some advice and a solution if possible...thanks Kernel panic : VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 00:de that is the message i get...please email me ASAP...thanks _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]