Somebody in the thread at some point said: > This seems to be where /dev/root comes from. And my kernel can't find it > for some reason. /dev/root is like a pointer to another partition. It's not the problem that it can't find /dev/root, it's a problem that it is not finding the partition with the / filesystem on it (that /dev/root whould be pointing to). It usually means you should go look at the kernel commandline root=... line defined in /boot/grub/grub.conf -Andy