>And what might that hack be? Why did you do it? Because it was a possibility. >make mrproper (to clear out all those old bad >compiles) >make menuconfig (to do as much damage as you can) >make dep (it says so right when you are done with >menuconfig) >make bzImage (the boot kernel, you can find it under >../arch/<arch>/bzImage you have to copy it to >/boot/vmlinuz.<kernel version> and configure lilo >make modules (to create all the modules) >make modules_install (to install the modules) Well seeing as how the kernel has yet to boot I will attempt to do it in another sequence. I did not do mrproper (I will next). I did the bzImage after make modules (I spaced it) and I forgot the uderscore for make modules install (it still processed info). I did do all of this as su, however. So I suppose I will continue to hack away at the kernel and my laptop and the coffee table and the sofa and the ........ -Spencer Underground