Since the same symptoms started to appear with the older 2.6.20 kernel as well, I have done some more investigation. Booting the kernel without initramfs: Mounting the root filesystem fails, although the hard disk with the root filesytem was recognised correctly. That is probably ok since the ext3fs drivers are built as a module I guess. Booting with initramfs: After some obscure error the initramfs shell pops up. Now, doing a mount /dev/hda8 /root fails with "invalid argument" Doing a mount -t ext3 /dev/hda8 /root worked and the root filesystem got mounted correctly. I simply exit'ed the shell and the system continued to boot normally. I've manually updated the initramfs using update-initramfs -k all -u but it did not help, booting still fails. Therefore the problem seems to be either some initramfs creation/update stuff or the mount program doesn't automatically recognise the filesystem type anymore. Regards, Dominik Bodi
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