I'm a bit confused. YOu're dd'ing kernels right to the rescue disk. But the rescue disk, on i386 anyhow, is an msdos disk (syslinux) with the kerne on there. I would use mcopy to replace it. I believe this is documented in the install manual. -- ...Adam Di Carlo..<adam@onshore-devel.com>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>