On Sun, November 16, 2008 2:41 am, Tim wrote: > You're missing some things on the kernel line. It should have a > structure like this: > > kernel /vmlinuz ro root= > > Where the root parameter points to wherever "/" is located. I have added "ro root=/dev/sda3" right after the vmlinuz argument but nothing changes. > I'd expect you to see some sort of error message without having any > referral to where to find the root partition. Booting in single user mode and running dmesg the only more or less related lines I see are: EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem. EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds. EXT3-fs: recovery complete. EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. type=1404 audit (122678963.153:2): enforcing =1 old_enforcing=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 a few lines below: SELINUX: initialized (dev sda3, type ext3), uses xattr .... SELINUX: initialized (dev rootfs, type rootfs), uses genfs_contexts ... EXT3 FS on sda3, internal journal kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal EXT3-fs: mouinted filesystem with ordered data mode. SELinux: initialized (dev sda1, type ext3), uses xattr So sda3 (/) and sda1 (/boot) are not managed in the same way, or at least don't generate the same notifications. But if I type mount at the prompt, I get: /dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw) /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) as expected (plus lines for proc, tmpfs, sysfs, devpts) what does all this mean& tia, Marco -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines