Booting 'Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.8.1-3-386 ' (happens with the other kernel as well, have not tried recovery mode yet.) root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-3-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet splash [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x10ad89] initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8.1-3-386 [Linux-initrd @ 0x1dbdb000, 0x405000 bytes] savedefault boot Uncompressing Linux... Ok., booting the kernel. PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device 0000:00:02.1 (Ithink this line is new.) Starting Ubuntu... pivot_root:no such file or directory /sbin/init: cannot open dev/console: No such file Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! That is all that is on the screen, Thanks.