However, my keyboard will not respond. When I boot, I usually press the enter key on the keypad at the "lite talk found" message so that I don't have to hear the other stuff. Nothing responds - not even ctrl+alt+del. I've had this with a 2.6.24.4 kernel. I built a kernel using the make all modules option. That's exactly what it done but didn't load the keyboard driver at boot time. Luckily, I had a USB keyboard and when I plugged it into the machine after booting, it was initialised. HTH Gena