Hi, Thank you Adam for helping me solve the l4linux booting issue - adding modname "vmlinuz" module to the rmgr grub.conf linux fixed the rmgr error. As for, L4linux hanging, I had a bad configuration, which must have caused a race condition to pop up because after I changed my .config file around the kernel stopped hanging. I have another question. Rather than using a ramdisk as the root filesystem, I'd like to use my filesystem on /dev/hda3. So, I used this grub.conf, which I believe will use /dev/hda3 as the root fileystem: title L4Linux-2.4 kernel (hd0,0)/boot/drops/rmgr -sigma0 modaddr 0x2000000 module (hd0,0)/boot/drops/main -nokdb -nowait -serial_esc -comspeed 115200 -comport 1 115200 -comport 1 module (hd0,0)/boot/drops/sigma0 module (hd0,0)/boot/drops/vmlinuz.V2 root=/dev/hda3 The results are a standard boot (until kernel talks to disk) and dmesg displaying: ..... ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq15 hda: ide-disk driver hda: lost interrupt hda: host protected area => 1 hda: lost interrupt hda: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/ 8192KiB Cache, CHS= 14593/255/63, UDMA(33) hda: lost interrupt hda: lost interrupt hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver hdc: lost interrupt hdc: lost interrupt hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048 Cache UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 Partition check hda:<4>hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24 hda: DMA interrupt recovery hda: lost interrupt hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 <<4>hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24 .... ds: no scocke drivers loaded! hda: DMA interrupt recovery hda: lost interrupt hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24 hda: DMA interrupt recovery hda: lost interrupt hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24 hda: DMA interrupt recovery hda: lost interrupt resiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal error wile mapping vm_allocated pages @ 10000002, error: e0, res: 40e0, fpage=80000033 KDB: pingpong no mapping --pingpong no mapping--------------------------------------------------------EIP: 00580c01 hard reboot time ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Additionally, I tried to boot up with regular ramdisk as the filesytems and mounting /dev/hda3 and then chrooting over, but that fails with a : FATAL: kernel too old message. _________________________________________________________________________________________ My questions: 1. Have you guys had success in using root=/dev/hda(x) in grub? If so, are there any tricks? 2. Is it typical for keyboard mappings to be wrong with l4linux? For example, my forward slash is now shift-7 and my dash is forward slash. 3. Has anyone seen the FATAl: kernel too old message before? Who is the kernel to old for, the filesystem? I apologize if these questions are inappropriate, Tim