Folks -- My ignorance of all things Linux might be showing with this posting, but I can't seem to make this work. I have a Linux FC2 machine with an IDE drive which I'm trying to make an image of, so in case all hell breaks loose we have something we can restore and be up and running in no time. The box I tried to restore has a SATA drive. I've already imaged the SATA drive with the image, but it says "kernel panic". Where should I start to look for fixing this problem?!? My google-foo is proving to be worthless for this problem too! I know it's got something to do with grub, so I'm posting the grub.conf here too. Any help appreciated! Thanks, Faisal (Cross posted to redhat-install list) Here are the last few lines before the kernel panic: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 160k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Red Hat nash version 3.5.14 starting Loading jbd.o module Journalled Block Device driver loaded Loading ext3.o module Mounting /proc filesystem Creating block devices VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 Here's my grub.conf: # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2199.nptl) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2199.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2199.nptl.img title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img