Hi Pramila, Trevor mentioned in his reply to your original post that you have to compile all required modules directly into the kernel. Now what has happened here is that the kernel doesn't know how to read your file systems, and hence cannot find init. This is because support for file systems have been compiled as modules. What you have to do is the compile ext2, ext3 and if required vfat & ntfs directly into the kernel. That will solve your immediate problem. Also when you recompile, directly compile support for your Display Adapter, Sound Adapter, NIC, etc etc, into the kernel. This will avoid a lot of headache later. cheerio vivek
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