I downloaded and tried on my blade 1000, but ran into the same 'remapping the kernel' hang as I have with just about everything except 2.4.18. If anyone has a 2.6.8+ smp kernel that works for them on a similar blade machine I would be very grateful to see your kernel config file to try and use that on my own machine, I just don't know what I'm not doing right. <EOL> Tib