...........Sorry i saw that the mail isnt complete .................... Hi Murty, i tried now again with the new lilo. But the problem i have is still there. I compiled the 2.4.9-31 kernel with raid. I installed the lilo like described in your howto. But i always get a kernel panic at boot time. The message is very very long so that i cant send you all information, but here is some of the output. I hope you can help me again. [<c013038f>] __alloc_pages [kernel] 0xf