On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, David Nedrow wrote: could it be as simple as, you shouldn't try to mount the root filesystem by label, but by device name? rday

On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 16:25, David Nedrow wrote: David, The drivers needed at boot time are supposed to be in the initrd image file (referenced as the third line in most Linux grub stanzas. Now if you have some unique needed driver, you may need to make sure that you are constructing this file by hand each time you upgrade your kernel. Take a look at mkinitrd for information on creating the initrd file. This is one of those chicken and egg things. How do I load a module from under /lib/modules/<kernel version>/ before mounting "/" ? So the initrd contains things like the ext3.ko module and other needed modules to "boot" the system. Subsequent module loading can be accomplished from the directory tree, once "/" has been mounted. Certainly a "disk driver" that is not "hard-compiled" into the kernel would be one of the needed modules to boot.... HTH, --Rob