Here are some oddities that I have spotted in the kernel log, in my boot log. I am using SuSE 7.3 Pro on a box with an Award BIOS/Soyo Dragon Plus! motherboard. The first is regarding APIC, which is why I recompiled the kernel, i.e. I wanted to get the computer to shutdown when I tell SuSE to shutdown: <4>Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. <4>Found and enabled local APIC! Another thing with APIC is: BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz enableapic vga=0x0317 disableapic ide=nodma apm=off Why enable apic and then disable apic and the reverse above? The second odditiy is more worrying seen with my eyes (or is it just me???): <4>FAT: bogus logical sector size 5376 <4>FAT: bogus logical sector size 5376 Any ideas from the list? Cheers, Brian