I'm having further problems with booting any kernel other then the k_smp_2.5.19-191 that I am currently running. My system is a dual Opteron 244 in a HDAMB system board (Rhapsody?) with a mere 1Gig of ram. I have SCSI hard drive, and an IDE CDROM and ZIP drive. The AGP video card is a GeForce4 MX440. And otherwise it is SLES8. When I install (via yast) the 2.4.19-256 kernel, it boots only about far enough to print some ACPI messages, then it freezes. I set vga=0 on the boot line, little difference. So far, none of the "patches" for the kernel as downloaded by yast have worked for me, but I can boot the install CDROM in rescue mode, use rpm to install the k_smp_2.4.19-191 kernel, and I'm back in business. I can occasionally run tests, but I only sporadically have time to fiddle with this during the week. A nit: It would be much nicer if the kernel rpm packages *added* themselves to the grub file instead of replacing the existing boot config. This would then allow for multiple installed kernels, handy in train wrecks like this. -- Steve Williams "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. steve at icarus.com But I have promises to keep, http://www.icarus.com and lines to code before I sleep, http://www.picturel.com And lines to code before I sleep."