Hi all- My system running Gentoo just froze and I had to do a hard reset (hit the power button). It would not respond to ctl-atl-del ctl-atl-backspace, unplugging usb mouse - hotplug did not "turn it back on" (the red light), no pings were returned, and ssh did not respond, nmap could not "see" it. upon reboot I get a Kernel Panic VFS unable to mount root fs on 03:03 the errors messages up to the Kernel Panic are like this (I'm typing all this so there may be some typos...) hda: read_intr: error 0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBA sect=79646593, sector=76546048 hda: read_intr: status 0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error} <the above two lines three more times> ide0: reset: success <then the frist two lines 5 more times> < another reset success> <the first two lines again> end_request: I/O error,dev 03:03 <repseat all the above again> <then kernel panic> This is a Dell percision 530 with dual Xeon 1.5 Ghz and just shy of a gig of ram. I was listening to music, had opera up, just got done running John the Ripper of 5 days on my htpasswd file, and had about 15 aterms open. I just installed Firebird and cvs this morning. any thoughts on these errors? thanks johnnyf _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list