Hi, Yesterday I tried to put a DVD burner and an extra hard drive into ai Debian testing box, and I have been getting kernel panics ever since. I think that the panic is happening right when the sytem is trying to mount the root filesystem. The last few lines I see are: EXT3-fs: mounted filesytem with order data mode exec: 217:chroot not found kernel panic: attempted to kill init Since then I have tried a number of things to fix the problem. I have returned the hardware to the original configuration. I have tried booting other older kernels on the same box. No luck. I did change the kernel on this box a couple of weeks ago, but it booted fine then. I am suspicious that my problem relates to this, but that wouldn't explain why my old kernel s don't work either. It boots fine under Knoppix and I have played around a bit. My disks fsck fine. I can run lilo OK and I get no errors. At this point, I really don't know what to try next. Any suggestions? -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list