Hi all first cry for help here so bear with me, I've been monitoring the list for the last few days hoping someone else had experienced the same problem but looks like it is peculiar to me. I've been running FC3 for about 6wks now and it's been rock solid and a good learning experience for this newbie. I ran the update routine earlier this week to install the latest available updates (about 15 of them) including a kernel update, now it won't boot to the new kernel. I've managed to turn "rhgb quiet" off from the grub screen so I could get a better idea of what's happening, from what I can see the boot gets as far as "Enabling swap space" [ok] then stalls. For info: When I installed FC3, it came with the 2.6.9-1.667 kernel. Since then, I successfully updated to the 2.6.10-1.760_FC3 kernel. It booted ok and ran well. When I ran my update this week, the kernel was updated to 2.6.10-1.766_FC3. It will not boot, and nor will the previous kernel. The 2.6.9-1.667 kernel still boots fine. Not sure where to go from here. What's next in the boot routine? What could be stopping it at that point? Can I re-run the update somehow? Am I better off just sticking with the older kernel? Opinions welcome. regards Labman AMD Sempron 2400+ ASUS A7N8X-VM/400 512Mb RAM FC3 dual boot with XP