Vince, et al -- ...and then Vince Negri said... % % I notice that you loaded 9.1 "onto the swap slice on % my basic e-Machines desktop (where I'm happily running 9.0 Pro) " % What kernel version is your 9.0 install at? It's 2.4. Oh, wait ... Hey, it's 2.4.21-238! OK, now I am very confused. I have lilo in my SuSE 9.0 hda2 root with an entry for 'suse91' pointing to hda1. To wit: #message = /boot/message timeout = 30 prompt default = linux boot = /dev/hda image = /boot/vmlinuz ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### label = linux initrd = /boot/initrd optional root = /dev/hda2 vga = 0x31a append = "splash=verbose desktop hdc=ide-scsi hdclun=0 showopts" image = /boot/vmlinuz ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: single### label = single initrd = /boot/initrd optional root = /dev/hda2 vga = 0x31a append = "splash=verbose desktop hdc=ide-scsi hdclun=0 showopts single" image = /boot/vmlinuz label = suse91 initrd = /boot/initrd optional root = /dev/hda1 vga = 0x31a append = "splash=verbose desktop hdc=ide-scsi hdclun=0 showopts" When I boot the 9.1 slice, df reports /dev/hda1 as / (my only mount) and yet I see 2.6 stuff in my /boot dir: davidtg@strumpet:~> df -kh /mnt/tmp Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 2.1G 1.7G 374M 82% /mnt/tmp davidtg@strumpet:~> ls -goh /mnt/tmp/boot/ total 5.2M -rw-r--r-- 1 104K Apr 6 22:14 Kerntypes-2.6.4-52-default -rw-r--r-- 1 712K Apr 6 22:08 System.map-2.6.4-52-default lrwxrwxrwx 1 1 Sep 6 07:55 boot -> . -rw-r--r-- 1 54K Apr 6 22:14 config-2.6.4-52-default drwxr-xr-x 2 360 Sep 6 07:55 grub lrwxrwxrwx 1 23 Sep 6 08:08 initrd -> initrd-2.6.4-52-default -rw-r--r-- 1 1.1M Sep 6 08:08 initrd-2.6.4-52-default -rw-r--r-- 1 82K Apr 6 13:29 message -rw-r--r-- 1 73K Apr 6 22:14 modversions-2.6.4-52-i386-default.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 1.7M Apr 6 22:14 vmlinux-2.6.4-52-default.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 24 Sep 6 07:59 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.4-52-default -rw-r--r-- 1 1.5M Apr 6 22:08 vmlinuz-2.6.4-52-default So why does the thing boot into 2.4.21, apparently from my hda2 9.0 slice?? TIA again Scratching my head, :-D -- David T-G davidtg@justpickone.org http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!