From other messages, I saw that kernel 2.4.19 was available and "highly recommended" [because, among other things, it fixes a problem w/multiple IDE drives -- while I haven't seen a problem I can trace to this yet, I'm about to embark on something that would stress this, so if it's waiting to break...] So, I downloaded the sources, did "make cloneconfig" and noted some "new" items (mostly related to 'enterprise volume management') which I figured was a good thing to try out [re above stress test: I may try to do some video editing, in which case I'd REALLY like to have my two 80gb drives configured as raid-0 [striped] for speed] I've probably diddled a couple of other settings [dunno exactly what I'm doing -- it's been a while since I was "comfortable" doing kernel compiles; nowadays it seems even more complex] I -DID- to a "make dep", then tried make bzImage -- this chugged along until the following error: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.19.SuSE/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DKBUILD_BASENAME=traps -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c traps.c traps.c: In function `do_int3': traps.c:790: warning: implicit declaration of function `kdb' traps.c:790: `KDB_REASON_BREAK' undeclared (first use in this function) traps.c:790: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once traps.c:790: for each function it appears in.) traps.c:790: `kdb_eframe_t' undeclared (first use in this function) traps.c:790: parse error before "regs" make[1]: *** [traps.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19.SuSE/arch/i386/kernel' make: *** [_dir_arch/i386/kernel] Error 2 So, have I stepped in the goo on this? should I back up an redo the "make cloneconfig" and try that [without any additional 'diddling'] or is there simply "a problem" with the latest kernel sources "as supplied" by SuSE and I'm stuck unless *I* want to investigate and repair... [yeah, RIGHT!] Tom