You can setup to boot with a new kernell without endangering your current situation. If you copy the new bzImage to the /boot dir and add a new entry to lilo.conf. Just copy the curent entry with a new label and new image name. you will then have an option of shoosing the image to use when you first boot. It sounds to me like the kernel panic is not a problem with the kernell itself, but rather that it is failing to find a usable root location for the file system. Chances are that unless you have one large partition on your drive the correct root partition is /dev/hda4 or /dev/hda5. You can pick it out by running the mount command or df. ======= Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net Cluelessness There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots
