Hi Andrew, I found a Bug at the very start of booting rc8-mm1 kernel on my machine. Following is the info of my machine: uname -a Linux x330d.in.ibm.com 2.6.24-rc6 #3 SMP Tue Jan 15 17:24:05 NPT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Since I could capture a jpeg image of the boot message so I have put it at http://imsudhirkumar.googlepages.com/home The config file is attached for further iinvestigation. Regards, Sudhir Kumar ISTL IBM India