Hi, Never tried this before with 8.1, but today I dared installing k_athlon-2.4.19-185.i586.rpm from /people/mantel. Before, in the old versions, it was done that way; rpm -Uvh, then mk_initrd, then lilo, then reboot. All right. Now, we have grub. So, running lilo is no longer necessary. So I just rpm -Uvh'ed the new kernel. mk_initrd was automatically run right after this. So far this seemed to work nicely. But then, after the reboot, no login screen when the machine normally switches from console 1 to console 7 - just a blackout. I now booted into 'safe settings', logged in as root, and went to init 5, which now does work. Did I forget something? Or is there something wrong with the -185 build? I will try the -167 build from official update next. Cheers .... Wolfi ============================================= mailto:wolfi_z@gmx.net