arg... even I'm irritated now. How many people are going to say that it needs to be compiled into the kernel? Did you actually read the posts? MpFH..... > > This means that you haven't compiled in the filesystem > > support you need > > for your root drive. You either need to use an initrd image (of > which > > the FS for that needs to be compiled in) that loads the needed > modules > > to access the fs and devices, or you have to compile it in > > monolithically. > > I've tried both. Still no workie. > Just a thought. Are there any patches from the ReiserFS people? An update of some kind? Other than that I can't think of a reason it wouldn't work. sim