hi, I'm using kernel version 2.4.7 with freeS/WAN patch for IPSec with IPv6 support built into the static kernel. Everything seemed to be working fine, and I added some printks in the IPv6 code for understanding interaction with freeS/WAN. Since then, I'm not able to boot the machine using the recompiled image. The screen shows "Loading image name ......." and stops. Even if I remove the printks and do a make clean followed with make bzImage, the same result. Is there something wrong that I did? Is there is some problem with using printks? But such a problem should occur during run-time, why would it effect image building? I'm completely baffled regards suvidh -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/