Model is GX260, BIOS is A06. Video adapters include an Intel 82845 and a Radeon 7000. NIC is an Intel Pro/1000MT. Audio is SoundMAX integrated. It also has a USB cordless mouse. The install disk crashes immediately on boot and leaves the following information on the screen (hopefully with no trascription error). The only way to reboost is to hit reset or power-cycle. I tried acpi=no as a kernel option, to no avail. Thanks for any assistance. ---------------------------------- Process swapper (pid:1 threadinfo=f7d90000 task=f7d59630) Stack 0000002b 00000000 c015a352 c02d4c80 00000000 0000002b c198a604 c02d4c80 c17fca20 c014f6d4 0000002b c016e2dc fffffff4 c1983898 0000002c c1983800 c198a604 c1980e80 c198a630 00000000 c016e31d c1980e80 c1980e80 c198a611 Call Trace: [<c015a352>] simple_prepare_write+0x31/0x94 [<c014f6d4>] page_symlink+0x4e/0x10e [<c016e2dc>] init_symlink+0x0/0xd [<c016e31d>] sysfs_symlink+0x34/0x49 [<c016e49a>] sysfs_create_link+0xed/0x117 [<c01dcbc7>] bus_match+0x3f/0x45 [<c01dcc7b>] driver_attach+0x37/0x6a [<c01dce8d>] bus_add_driver+0x6a/0x81 [<c01dd173>] driver_register+0x28/0x2c [<c0199051>] pci_create_newid_file+0x15/0x1a [<c0199315>] pci_register_driver+0x4b/0x67 [<c032f0fb>] agp_intel_init+0x20/0x27 [<c0320659>] do_initcalls+0x49/0x97 [<c010029e>] init+0x0/0xe2 [<c01002bb>] init+0x1d/0xe2 [<c01041d5>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb Code: 0f 0b 2a 00 78 90 29 c0 2b 0d cc 90 37 c0 c1 f9 05 c1 e1 0c <0> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs