Hello, > In my machine My fedora 3(/dev/hda2) kernel (2.6.9) was corrupted due to crc. > I copied the (vmlinuz, config & system.map) from my slackware partition(/dev/hda5). > The Fedora 3 now boots but stops giving a warning "Unable to create intial console". You can google with "unable to open initial console". Since FC3 uses udev for /dev, you need a initrd that starts udev (to create /dev entries). You need to copy an initrd too. Does your /boot/grub/grub.conf has lines like this? root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/hda2 hdc=ide-scsi initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/