Do not use modules for scsi devices required to boot: hard wire this support with (Y) in kernel config file. I had the same'panic...' message until i did just that. FWIW you do not need anthing more than SRM consle to boot new kernel: for me on this DS10, with dka200 as the scsi device: >>>boot dka200 -fi 2/vmlinuz-2.4.20 -fl root=/dev/sda2 where sda2 is /. -Mel