Hello! Recently I have been trying to install Crux on my laptop(Compaq 615) with poor results. Everything goes smooth during the partitioning, installation and making of the kernel, but when I reboot the system this pops up: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unkown-block(8,1) Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.35.6 #1 Call Trace: [<c11f26cb>] ? panic+0x4a/0xaf [<c12f6ad7>] ? mount_block_root+0x1d5/0x1e9 [<c12f6be9>] ? mount_root+0x39/0x4d [<c12f6d3a>] ? prepare_namespace+0x13d/0x163 [<c12f6863>] ? kernel_init+0x195/0x1a0 [<c12f66ce>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x1a0 [<c1002b56>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10 First I tried compiling my fs into the kernel instead of having it as a module, to no avail, still the same issue. So I scouted the net for several days and got a lead that the SATA controller could be the issue at hand. So I did the same there, marked the SATA options with (*).. but the problem continues. Has anyone got a clue on what could be causing this? This particular computer has run everything from Arch to Ubuntu so it would seem weird that there would be a deadend with using Crux. Here's my lspci: 1. 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge 2. 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx) 3. 00:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0) 4. 00:07.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 3) 5. 00:09.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 4) 6. 00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode] 7. 00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller 8. 00:12.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller 9. 00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller 10. 00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller 11. 00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller 12. 00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller 13. 00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3a) 14. 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) 15. 00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller 16. 00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge 17. 00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller 18. 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h HyperTransport Configuration (rev 40) 19. 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Address Map 20. 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h DRAM Controller 21. 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Miscellaneous Control 22. 00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Link Control 23. 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics] 24. 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 4357 (rev 10) 25. 06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01) Any ideas? Best regards, David Lind