On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, sly wrote: > i got it now! > > i booted in rescue mode > chroot /mnt/sysimage > mount /mnt/cdrom > cd /mnt/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS > rpm -ivh --replacepkgs kernel-*.rpm Down to here you were ok. > cd /usr/src/linux* > make menuconfig > make bzImage > cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-* Why did you do this part? It should not be necessary. Just install the rpm. Just for giggles you might want to try: rpm -V kernel-*.rpm That should return nothing. If it returns errors do a man rpm to see what they mean. In addition uname -r will tell you the running kernel. That should match the kernel rpm. Unless of course you really wanted to build a custom kernel in which case you most likely missed a few steps. > i don't know if i did the right thing but it works now! Works is always a good thing. :-) Tom