Thank for you reply. I am "chicken" to start tampering with the kernel. When a 2.6* is reasonably stable, maybe I'll tackle that :-) For now, I want a usable initrd. The initrd procedure in the ext3-faq and an identical one in the Debian reference yield a very large img. It is too big to be used as a lilo boot menu item and used as an initrd, well this will not boot. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users