Hi, Tut mir leid - ich muss dass in Englisch erklaren. I'm trying (unsuccesfully) to compile a SuSe 8.0 kernel on my sony vaio pcg-c1vm. The depressing thing, is that it worked a couple of weeks ago, I re-installed everything from scratch, so I'd have a clean machine to work with, and now it just hangs when I reboot. To clarify, I can get onto the machine using 'failsafe', but this won't let me see use my USB floppy, because I have to pass pci=conf2 as a parameter to get around a bug in the alim153c driver, so I need to recompile the kernel... Presumably I'm doing something really simple wrong, and any hints gratefully recieved. I've looked on SuSe's site, and linux laptops, and in many other places to no avail, and am just plain running out of ideas. I take a fresh kernel from the original SuSe CD's, and then do the following: cd /usr/src/linux make mrproper # BTW - it seems to make no difference if I do 'make oldconfig' either # slurp original config from /proc/config.gz and change to a crusoe processor make menuconfig make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz.rf lilo # having added vmlinuz.rf reboot Loading rf................................... Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. _ Hangs with a blinking cursor :-( Any and all help gratefully recieved. Richard Foley Ciao - shorter than Aufwiedersehen -- ps. sorry about the ubs sig. (below) - can't get rid of it, for the moment :-\ Visit our website at http://www.ubswarburg.com This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for informational purposes and should not be construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any securities or related financial instruments.