<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Ed Greshko wrote: <blockquote cite="mid448A33C5.8040503@greshko.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hadders wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi Ed, It's a pretty standard looking output for grub, as it's the install default. #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp.img e2label said /dev/hda1 was "/" and couldn't get a label for /dev/hda3, which should be swap. It said "Bad magic number in superblock" So I ran mkswap on /dev/hda3 again, to be sure. Then went to /etc/fstab and said to use /dev/hda3 for swap, not LABEL=SWAP-hda3 </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Could you ungzip your initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp.img file and extract it with cpio and show the contents of the init file? </pre> </blockquote> Done. Okay, the main thing I think you'll be interested in is resume LABEL=SWAP-hda3 echo Creating root device. mkrootdev -t ext3 -o defaults,ro hda1 echo Mounting root filesystem. mount /sysroot Okay, it would seem to point to the use of "hda1" as label/dev is wrong?? Shouldn't it say either /dev/hda1 OR LABEL=/ H </body> </html>