I compiles and booted 2.6.9 kernel on my machine. One question, it shows its version as 2.6.9yes, where does "yes" comes from. First 5 lines of Makefile are VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 6 SUBLEVEL = 9 EXTRAVERSION = NAME=Zonked Quokka Anyone ? -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/