<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <blockquote cite="mid200606092330.26458.fox3ec208@wideopenwest.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Try reinstalling grub from rescue mode now, make sure that all labeled filesystems in /etc/fstab exist or change either the fslabel or fstab. The main thing to do now seems to be rewrite the boot info. </pre> </blockquote> Hi Terry, thanks for the suggestion, I checked the label again with a mkswap -c -v1 -L SWAP-hda3 /dev/hda3 But this still failed. I don't think grub/lilo are to blame here as a suggestion from Ed to unpack and look at the initrd may have yielded an indicator as to why the root dev setup is failing... H </body> </html>