Hello- I have an interesting question. I have Mandrake 10.1 on my system and I dual boot using lilo. I also have windows Xp on my system as well. Everything worked great but then I discovered that the reason my cdrom drive hasn't been working correctly is because I had the wrong kind of IDE cable. I had on older one that didn't support the higher ATA of my cdrom. I bought some new IDE cable and installed them in my computer, but when I tried to but into linux it gets a kernel panic error and says that it can't find the init. I tried booting into failsafe and a couple of different ways but I got the same message. I booted into Windows and it thought my cdrom was a new device and said installing new hardware and installed it. Could the cable of somehow changed something? I hooked the cables back up exactly how the old ones came off and didn't change anything around. Any advice would be great. Thanks a lot