On the Lilo question: Yes, I did rerun lilo and it appeared that it knew about the new kernal (bzImage.myker) and the original kernal that came out of the box when i originally installed RH off the CDROM.??????? BTW, that kernel seems ??? to be booting and running!!!!! I actually ran lilo twice (according to Kernel How TO V4.4) It is my perception that running it the first time reinstalls it in the MBR and the second time i ran it as lilo -q and it seemed to confirm that it knew about both kernels (And they both were there during the boot and i can chose between them at the Lilo prompt) Chris, I did run lilo -v and that confirmed it also ( i think????) I think now that it is executable because i do get the message shortly after BIOS that it is "booting the kernel) and a bunch of messages (just like the other kernel fly by) until: it is stalling/hanging/crashing just after the RH query to enter the Interactive mode any ideas???????? Thanks, Ron -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/