it compiles cleanly :) but .... at the silo prompt, I get: SILO vmlinuz-2.4.18-rc4 uncompressing image - decompression error: uncompressed image too long -- wouldn't fit into destination the uncompressed kernel is 2659791 bytes long. (2.5MB) any ideas? ./jp -- Jean-Paul Blaquière || Avatar of Computational japester@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au || Thaumaturgy http://japester.ucc.asn.au || verum ipsum factum "The male ego is a puppet master with a black sense of humour"