Fred Skrotzki said: > well none of mine match. > ll initrd*smp* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 496401 Dec 1 16:22 initrd-2.6.9-1.667smp.img > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 494295 Dec 2 12:37 initrd-2.6.9-1.681_FC3smp.img Not surprising. The initrd is created as part of the post install RPM script so that it matches your hardware. A better thing to try would be to rebuild the initrd for the kernel version that isn't working and set grub to use it. -- William Hooper