Hi everyone, i try to boot our new Blades from USB-Floppy but nothing works. i took the debian resucue-disk and copied a customized 2.4.20-Kernel with configuration shown on http://www.ozetechnology.com/howtos/C1VM_floppy.shtml onto. the system boots but the Kernel cannot find root-fs on /dev/sdX (Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs) when i tell syslinux to search for root-fs on /dev/fd0 following happens: VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER hub.c: new USB device 00:0f-2.1, assigned address 2 Manufacturer: TEAC Product: TEAC-FD05PUB scsi1: SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices [...] Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1MB) sda: Write protect is off Partition check: sda:(7)usb-storage:queuecommand() called sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 VFS: Cannot open root device "fd0" or 02:00 Please append a corect "root=" boot option Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00 When it tells me to insert root-fs en then press ENTER, it automatically goes on with "usb.c: new USB device..." Hardware is a DELL PE1655MCs > Serverworks ServerSet LE 3.0 Chipset > PERC4/im (LSI Logic MPT) with 2 Seagate 72G Cheetas best regards, Tobias Herziger (2003-05-15, 11:43) -- CHIP Xonio Online GmbH, Technik-Team tel: +49 89 74642-535 Poccistrasse 11 fax: +49 89 74642-274 80336 M|nchen mobile: +49 160 97845853 _______________________________________________ LinuxManagers mailing list - http://www.linuxmanagers.org submissions: LinuxManagers@linuxmanagers.org subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.linuxmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxmanagers