Thanks to everybody for your suggetions. I added /dev/hda9 (root) to grub, so now kernel-2.5.79 is booting, first impression is that it seems a bit faster on a vaio p4- 1.6mhz. Regards, alvaro -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/