Hi, I have just tried to upgrade my kernel on SuSE 7.1 using the kernel rpms from the ftp.suse.com site. I used yast1 to install the k_smp_24-2.4.2-5.i386.rpm. I then ran lilo and rebooted. I selected Linux_24 from the lilo menu. The system then refused to boot with a kernel panic unable to mount root filesystem error. I suspect that this is because / is on a SCSI drive and I had this trouble once before when I forgot to include the initrd file in the lilo.conf. However, this time the lilo.conf includes initrd=/boot/initrd_24 and /boot is on /dev/hda1. I did notice that the rpm did not contain an initrd_24 and that the old one from the initial install of SuSE 7.1 must be what is in /boot. How can I get round this problem? Many thanks for any help. Mark