Thanks for all the quick replies! I just did the mkinitrd routine, everything loads fine now. Thanks! However, the reason I went about getting a new kernel on my system is I'm trying to get my Lexmark X83 USB working. Other people on the lexmark-list@linuxprinting.org have reported (in RH 7.3, Mandrake 9) seeing it when they run, "cat /proc/bus/usb/devices", but on my system it doesn't show up. I thought I had enabled the right USB stuff with that kernel, but apparently not. On my default RH kernel (which im back on now), lsmod shows: usb-uhci 26188 0 (unused) usbcore 77024 1 [hid usb-uhci] (other things of course too) but no luck with a printer. BTW on the kernel I made for this purpose, cat /proc/bus/usb/devices yielded nothing as well. I know I enabled, "USB Printer" and usb-uhci on that kernel, anything else I might need or not need for it to see it? Thanks. -Brandon