I did some things and then rebooted It went through the module/application stage of the reboot very quickly (too quickly) and I now have Fedore Core release Rawhide (Rawhide) Kernel 2.6.8-1.610smp on an i686 (none) login: I typed in all of the usual suspects (root, user1, ..), but none are known. Even when I type in 'none', it doesn't know him either. What did I do? I was a bit annoyed that it was wanting me to do an 'e2fsck'. A couple of days ago, I was able to 'umount /boot' and do '/sbin/e2fsck -p /dev/sda1' and similar on all of the partitions except '/'. Doing 'umount /' was not successful (busy, busy) and I could not do e2fsck without umounting that partition. However, there was a lazy umount option 'umount -l /' This completed fine - no busy busy complaints. But, when I went to do '/sbin/e2fsck -p /dev/sda2' on the '/' partition - it still said it was mounted and that terrible things would happen if I continued. Can you imagine that? I already had 'umount'ed it, lazy whatever. So I went ahead and did the e2fsck. And, terrible things did happen. ----- I really did need to download the latest FC2 test release iso disks - and do the i2o driver installs...