:hi matt, thanks for your fast reply :-) : :your patch did the trick, I'm able to boot w/o a panic :-) : :in case you still want the additional bootverbose info, here it is: :bootdev: a0320004 type=4 unit=2 slice=3 part=0 major=13 What is the root filesystem actually mounted on ? (do a 'df'). -Matt