Hi there, After installing tjhe last kernel update (default 2.6.5-7.75.x86_64) with YOU on my AMD64 system (MSI K8T Neo mainboard, sata 160Gb disk with SuSE 9.1 for AMD64), the system hangs during the boot process. Shortly after loading the kernel scsi drivers (sd_mod.ko, libata.ko, sata_via.ko), there is a warning "can't open /etc/mtab: No such file or directory". I am sure it is there (after booting from CD and mounting the disk I can see it) Then on hda2 (my root partition) it finds a ReiserFS filesystem and after the next message, the system hangs: "ReiserFS: hda2: checking transaction log (hda2)" I am able to reboot with ctr-alt-del. If I do that sometimes everything is the same, or there is one extra line like: "ReiserFS: hda2: replayed 5 transactions in 0 seconds" Seems to me that it finds hda2 but refuses to load my LVM system where the rest of my logical partitions are. Is it possible it has something to do with LVM? Do I miss some module? I had a similar experience before with a 2.6.5 test kernel and at that time just reinstalling the original SuSE kernel from DVD was enough to get the system working again. My system contains a clean installation with just added all patches and updates Yast (YOU) proposed. All my partitions (home, opt, tmp, usr, var, local) except root and swap are in a LVM system. Roel