Apparently "apic" mode is not on with kernels 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 ; is there any option to be passed through GRUB to get this installed should we agree that these kernels have "apic" modules integrated ? Regards -- Daniel Moyne (Nulix)---------------------------------------------------------- Distribution : Mandrake 10.2 test \\|// Fedora Core 3 on test kernel 2.6.8 / --- \ kernel 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 KDE 3.3 (' o-o ') KDE 3.3 ------------------------------------oOO-(_)-OOo-------------------------------