Hello all, I am still trying to get rt5 built... Now my problem is that when I boot the rt kernel it all looks good - I get to the screen with the Fedora booting progress bar - but when the kernel tries to remount root in read/write mode the machine freezes. I am using the default config file for Fedora Core 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 except I changed preempt to volentary, processor Hz to 1000, processor type to Athlon64, and threaded hard and soft IRQ's. i may have forgotten something that I changed but can you think of a reason that the kernel would freeze when trying to remount the root device? It seems odd becasue if it can mount the device to load the kernel then why can't it remount that same device? Thanks for the help! (After I get the sweet kernel working I have tr rebuild the cool ati-fglrx module that complains about spinlocking. Fun... :P) -thewade [pdman@musicbox ~]$ cat /etc/fstab # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sys /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 LABEL=SWAP-hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 [pdman@musicbox ~]$ cat /etc/mtab /dev/hda3 / ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/proc /proc proc rw 0 0 /dev/sys /sys sysfs rw 0 0 /dev/devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/hda2 /boot ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0 sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw 0 0 automount(pid2065) /misc autofs rw,fd=4,pgrp=2065,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0 automount(pid2081) /net autofs rw,fd=4,pgrp=2081,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0