I haven't been following this thread, but a friend saw a similar problem with RedHat 7.3. The machine just stopped booting one day at this point in the boot process. He said he found a recommendation from Alan Cox to boot off of a rescue disk and fsck the filesystems. This did fix the problem, but we aren't sure why. Josh > >>Thomas Bitschnau wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Hi! > >>> > >>>I installed a 2.6.5-Kernel via rpm. The entry in the grub.conf > file was > >>>done by the system. > >>>If I try to start the system with the newly installed kernel, it > just > >>>stops booting after the "Freeing unused kernel memory: 148k > >>>freed"-message. > >>>There are no errors like kernel-panic or something. > >>> > >>>What shall I do now? > >>>-- > >>>Thomas B. ===== __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢ http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash