Hello, RE: > That creates the initrd but that doesn't mean you have to use it. Grub > has to be told to use that initrd. Can you post the contents of > /etc/grub.conf ? In fact, I use lilo. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~gbakos/noconsole-2.6.15/ See lilo.conf There is also some other stuff here, the kernel .config and the make(install) log files. > Udev without initrd > Install Fedore Core as usual and reboot. Execute the following commands > mkdir /tmp/dev > mount --move /dev /tmp/dev > sbin/MAKEDEV null console zero > mount --move /tmp/dev /dev > Install your kernel without an initrd. Reboot. OK, but then this continues as: "You will get some SELinux errors, and syslogd will not work as expected" They scared me away from considering this option :) Right now I am trying to check my initrd image -- what is exactly inside; is there a /dev/console there ... Gaspar