Hi, Please could you aim at 4.58beta instead? It's the first version that can be used by grub-pc for compression of boot blocks. See: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-07/msg00036.html thanks -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."