Hi all I've just noticed this problem when I booting up my box today. There were some mod error messages complaining about unable to creat /dev/console, /dev/null and one another dev file which I was unable to recall. and then the box hang up at the "setting up hostname" step. I've got this new kernel installed for a while (a day or two?). It worked alright till today. I didn't change any conf file nor I install/removed any package. BTW, the original kernel (2.6.11-1.1369) is bootable. But if there is something wrong with the new kernel, then I should know it already. AS I KNOW, I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING! :) Any thing I missed here? Thanks, XIa