I installed kernel-2.6.9-1.2_FC2.i686.rpm from updates/testing, to see what would happen. Standard rpm -ivh; nothing fancy. Then, I changed grub.conf to make the new kernel the default, and rebooted. Woops; panic. Turns out the initrd-2.6.9-1.2_FC2.img was completely empty (12k file, properly a gzipped ext2 image, but with no content). I ran mkinitrd by hand, and it worked fine. And then I uninstalled the kernel and reinstalled it, and this time, the initrd image was created just fine. So, maybe it was a bizarre fluke. But I thought I'd mention it just in case anyone else has similar problems.... -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>