Kernel 2.6.12-1.1387 is working fine for me. Did U update anything else besides that? Try disabling SE Linux, cos as far as I am concerned, this has solved many of the problems that I've been having of late. :P Xia Bin wrote: >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 > > >