dominique wrote: > FC6 test 2 failed too, (after FC5 and FC4) the same way. therefore, the > version of the kernel is very probably not the cause of the failure. > > Its hard for me to believe that a commun MB is not supported (Intel says > linux supported, and i updated the BIOS). If it were me, I would try Knoppix. If that works run fsck on the disk. And perhaps test the memory. Maybe try running in text mode (edit /etc/inittab). -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland