I've got an ext2 filesystem image of my old root filesystem, just in case I forgot some settings. Under 2.2.18 I had no truoble mounting it with: mount /home/old-root.img /mnt/oldroot -t ext2 -o ro,loop Now under 2.4.2 I try the same thing and it just hangs. Anyone got any clues? That and I've noticed 2.4.2 wants to hang on startup and shutdown for a long time, like it's waiting for a timeout, but there's nothing in the logs. The system is SuSE 7.1. -- Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe | jpschewe at mtu.net For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39