Hi, I have a similar problem on one of my machines running SuSE Linux 9.1. The boot process hangs right after fsck has completed and reported all 4 drives as clean. The machine is not completely locked up, the terminal scrolls down when I press Return, it just doesn't continue to boot. Booting in failsafe mode leads to the same result. I have updated another SuSE 9.1 machine which boots up fine. Besides both machines are running 9.1 they are somewhat different, though. Working Machine: P4 3200 with 875P Chipset 1 GB RAM 3ware IDE-RAID controller with 4 drives attached Hardware RAID 10 reiserfs Machine which fails to boot: Athlon 3200 XP with nForce2 Chipset 1 GB RAM 2 IDE drives attached to the mainboard controllers 2 IDE drives attached to a Promise Ultra100TX2 PCI controller Boot device on the Promise controller no RAID all partitions ext3 Best regards, Stefan