Hi Wookey, Thanks for all your support. I need help again with the root file system. Last friday I had the 2.4.25 zdImage downloaded and working. I was loading some kernel modules when I thought that maybe I should be working with a clean root file system. So I did the "load root" command at the boot loader, reset the machine and found that I now get a kernel panic again. Since then, this morning I have tried again with no results. What did I miss? do I need to reload the kernel once I install the root? or are there other parameter I should have set? --Glen