>>>>> "RPH" == R P Herrold <R> writes: RPH> Wouldn't it suffice to simply have a separate tiny 'reinstall RPH> partition' [mounted at perhaps /mnt/reinstall], holding the RPH> required vmlinux and .img, and have it added as a secondary boot RPH> choice on the grub.conf collection of files? That would work just as well. I would just use /boot and set up the reinstall images after the new OS is set up to avoid having to use yet another partition. - J<