Continuing to try to get L4Linux to boot, I run into the problem that it cannot open an initial console: Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 36k freed Warning: unable to open an initial console and then goes into an infinite loop of: root: rcvd 4772a0, 4772a0, src: a.0 unknown request from a.0 root: rcvd 4772a0, 4772a0, src: a.0 unknown request from a.0 Actually this is the message of what happens under vmware; when I run natively, it seems to be the same but the messages go by too quickly to read. Might anybody have any pointers or suggestions of what to try? BTW: The build is from the modules "grub l4 linux22 oskit10" from the CVS server on 11 Jul 200. james -- Dr. James Riordan email: rij@zurich.ibm.com IBM Forschungslaboratorium notes: James Riordan/Zurich/IBM Säumerstrasse 4 Tel +41 (0) 1 724 89 81 CH-8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland Fax +41 (0) 1 724 89 53