Hi, Thanks to everyone who replied to my earlier message on 'rtlinux booting problem'. Most of the things are straightened out, but still the booting stops at a point where it detects the scsi disk, realizes the partition table and I think its looking at each of the partitions. I have the following partitions on my disk (sda1-NT, sda2-Linux root, sda3-extended, sda5-linux swap, sda6-linux native, sda7-NTFS, sda8-FAT). Upto this point the information is detected correctly, the message is written below for you ................... ............ SCSI aic7xxx adaptors loaded........... ................ detected SCSI disk sda at scsi0, channel0, id0, lun0 (scsi0,0,0,0) synchronous at 40.0 Mbytes/sec offset 8. SCSI device sda: hdwr sector=512 bytes, Sectors=17783240...............[8683 MB] partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 <sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8> [MS-DOS FS rel. 12, FAT, 0 check=n, conv=b, uid=0, gid=0, umask=022, bmap] [me=0x58, cs=0,......................................................] Transaction block size=512 [MS-DOS FS rel. 12, FAT, 0 check=n, conv=b, uid=0, gid=0, umask=022, bmap] [me=0x58, cs=0,......................................................] Transaction block size=512 HPFS: hpfs_read_super: Not HPFS Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02 <STOPS HERE> I have enabled the OS/2 fs (read-only) option in my kernel configuration. Does this have to do something with the message? Can you please explain whats going on and the problem? Thanks in anticipation. Surya. --- [rtl] --- To unsubscribe: echo "unsubscribe rtl" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR echo "unsubscribe rtl <Your_email>" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---- For more information on Real-Time Linux see: http://www.rtlinux.org/~rtlinux/