I updated two suse 9.3 x86 boxes and on both they installed all the way to the end of the first disk and then gave a mkinitrd error, resulting on a kernel panic upon reboot. On both, I managed to restore using mkinitrd in a rescue environment (suse rescue and knoppix). I didn't get any debugging information at the time of the install, but mkinitrd complained about being unable to locate the following files when i ran it manually: lib/klibc/sbin/ata_id lib/klibc/sbin/scsi_id lib/klibc/sbin/usb_id lib/klibc/sbin/vol_id lib/klibc/sbin/dasd_id sbin/path_id sbin/path_id which are from the udev package. I copied those from a fresh install (which installed absolutely fine, ruling out my initial suspicions of a dodgy install disk) and all was ok, give or take the odd modprobe. Once I was up I reinstalled the kernel packages and everything is by and large ok. Any idea why this would have happened? There is a similar problem on the web here: http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/lofiversion/index.php/t18960.html which is unanswered. The machines I tried the install on both have different motherboards and specs and a clean install worked. The udev package now seems happily installed. Craig