Today I installed some 80 accumulated upgrades to my Ubuntu 6.06 system with no apparent problem til I rebooted as it instructed me. It did not get very far... Below is the hand transcribed but pretty close listing of the error messages. Note that a few weeks ago at the install fest we increased the size of the partition the system is in by moving all the files to an external hard disk , making a new larger partition and moving the files back. After some tweaking that has been running fine. Anyone recognise what's going on here? Thanks , Fred last messages displayed while booting Ubuntu 6.06 system before stopping: modprobe -l -t <dirname> [-a <modulename...] mount: Cannot read /etc/fstab: No such file or directory mount: Mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed No such file or directory mount: Mounting /sys on /root/sys failed No such file or directory mount: Mounting /proc on /root/proc failed No such file or directory Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init Busybox v1.01 (Debian 1:1.01-4ubuntu3) Built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for list of built-in commands. /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off # -- Fred H. Olson Minneapolis,MN 55411 USA (near north Mpls) Communications for Justice -- Free, superior listserv's w/o ads: http://justcomm.org My Link Pg: http://fholson.cohousing.org 612-588-9532 (7am-10pm CST/CDT) Email: fholson at cohousing.org