Having irregularly had some problems with booting my Pentium II I suspected a memory problem. A long lasting test with the memory test program did not give any clues. Problems occurred now and then and normally could be overcome with a reboot. Today my dual boot system, Dos and Suse8 was willing to get my Dos session but at booting for Linux was not successful. I was able to get at the console but when I wanted to start KDE with startx I ended up in console again with a message from which I think following is most important. _loaderFileToMem() malloc failed and some lines lower fatal IO error 104 I am now in need for a translation of these lines of information. There seems to be something amiss with my memory ;-) and malloc (?) failed. Who is malloc? The Io error being 104 must have some meaning. Somebody knows where to find those meanings? Any ideas how to improve/repair my failing memory ;-) ? -- ************************************************************************ Registered Linux user 183145 NTReader v0.36w(P)/Beta (Registered) in conjunction with Net-Tamer.