VFS never mounts root reaadonly

[Scott Kapu]

My system on startup finds LILO (on NFTLA) and will
boot from a harddisk. When I select DOC from lilo it
loads the
linux kernel but then hangs just before the message
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
 
ie: this is the message that appears when booting
the kernel on hda1. I'm using the same kernel on both,
2.4.16, and lilo22.2

The DOC works great after the system boots from hda1
and mounts doc.

Am I missing something obvious?? 
Please help
Thanks in advance
 
-scott

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