Hi, Has anyone seen this: (or has any ideas?) I have an old Compaq - 486DX2-66 with 16MB ram which has been running SuSE 6.1 for about 8 months as a gateway/router. I want to upgrade (reinstall) to SuSE 7.2, but when booting from the SuSE 7.2 bootdisk (standard, or i386), I get the boot: prompt - followed by 'loading initrd' - followed by 'loading linux' - but then, after the 'uncompressing linux' message, I immediately get the following error message: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 Followed by a register and stack dump, followed by: Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task! In idle task - not syncing I should emphasise that the same boot disk sucessfully boots on a variety of other computers. I'm really stuck with this one! Thanks Tony