Hi, did you add the initrd line? i've got: title 2.4 kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd BTW: you don't need to build a new kernel, I tried a lot, but it's easy: during boot optain a shell: modprobe reiserfs exit when the system is up do a: mkinitrd /lib/modules/2.4.xxxx/ that seems to be all lutz ____ Lutz Mueller University of Wuppertal http://wkw.kunst.uni-wuppertal.de/mueller.vcf http://wkw.kunst.uni-wuppertal.de/mueller.gpg