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Sindi Keesan wrote:
> 
> I used my ethernet cards to transfer BL3 
> to a second computer with one hard drive (hda) 
> and BL3 again in d:\baslin.  

Is D: on a primary or extended partition?
Is it FAT16, FAT32 or what?

> I transferred BL3 to several computers this way 
> and on the others it runs.  

Same questions:  primary/extended?  FAT?

> hda:  hda1 hda2 hda3    (BL2 on hda3, DOS on others, 
> Win98 on hda1 too)

OK looks like primary partition.

> kernel panic:  VFS:  Unable to mount root fs at 07:00

It can't find initfs.gz.  Are you sure you transfered it?

> This is a FAT32 DOS partition where D:\baslin resides.  

OK, that answers my second question.

> On my own computers I use FAT16 for DOS.  Would it be 
> causing the FAT bread problem when booting BL3?  

Could be.  I have always assumed BL3 boots OK from 
Windows 98, but I have no Windows machines to test
it on.

Cheers,
Steven