Hello all My Problem: Linux (various kernels, distributions) seems to freeze while booting on my hardware after displaying "Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel" iff I do not have a PS/2 mouse plugged in. Plug the PS/2 mouse in, and booting is no problem. Unplug the PS/2 mouse just as the bulk of kernel boot messages display, no problem. But reboot without a PS/2 mouse, and the system simply freezes after the above text message. I am currently running a stock Mandrake Linux 9.0 release on a Shuttle XPC SK41G. The CPU is an AMD Athlon XP 2400. Motherboard has a VIA KM266 chipset. I discovered some mention of the same boot freezing problem while searching for Shuttle XPC specific postings. I discovered recently that a co-worker experiences the same problems with a stock RedHat 7.3 installation on his Dual Xeon 2.5GHz box with a SuperMicron P4DC motherboard - boot freezes if there is no PS/2 mouse. Given the different hardward configurations, different distributions, and different kernels attempted -- all susceptible to this freezing problem led me to believe that this might be a kernel problem. Any useful suggestions would be much appreciated. Regards Adnan Olia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030508/cb1df111/attachment.html