Tried that too. It gets farther along - the screen does blank and it seems to stall. This is on a laptop - ASUS M3000N, so fixing the ACPI and installing a custom kernel is important for me. On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 11:26, Joshua Legbandt wrote: > On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 08:03, Sean Middleditch wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 10:45, W. Chris Shank wrote: > > > I tried to compile a custom 2.4.22 kernel - when I boot it I get a VFS > > > kernel panic error saying it cannot open root device LABEL=/ or 00:00. > > > I'm looking through xconfig to see if I don't have devfs setup. I used > > > the .config included with fedora core kernel source. It doesn't surprise > > > me that the .config isn't accurate - I couldn't get the fedora core > > > source to compile acpi, so i think it's not an accurate source tree. > > > > You probably want to use the config files found in /boot that you get > > from installing a kernel image. > > > > actually, I've had to edit /boot/grub/grub.conf (or /etc/grub.conf) to > reflect the actual partiion instead of the device label for the new > kernel's entry. Never figured out another way around it. > > -josh -- W. Chris Shank ACE Technology Group, LLC chris.shank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.acetechgroup.com