Hi: hmmmm. OK, does it actually end up booting or does it grind to a halt? I would have thought that you'd need to do a rdev on the kernel so that it would use the hard drive as the root device as opposed to the floppy, but I've never used redhat. You out there, Bill? Geoff. -- Geoff Shang <gshang10 at scu.edu.au> ICQ number 43634701