Wow, that's rough. I guess the default kernel is just not really happy with something going on in your system. As you said, you tried removing any cards you don't need to boot. You don't have SCSI on your system... Can you check whether the unstable (2.2.1) boot-floppies work for you? -- .....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>