there may be some important things i'm overlooking here but, just as an experiment, i'm trying to build the latest stock kernel (2.6.17.9) for my fully-updated FC5 system. as a config file starting point, i'm just using config-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 (that came with the latest kernel update) and running "make oldconfig". then i'm running: $ make vmlinuz $ make modules that second make generates a number of "Section mismatch" warnings. is there an explanation of this somewhere online? thanks. rday