Dear friends, I did a clean install to Fedora 7 and it does not boot since then unless I provide boot arguments such as maxcpus=1. It does not proceed beyond: Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting kernel. How can I fix this? I already updated (after booting with maxcpus=1). Thanks. Take care Oliver -- Oliver Ruebenacker, Post-Doc Researcher Theoretical Biological Physics and Soft Statistical Mechanics Cell Biology at UConn Health Center and Physics at Harvard http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~oliver/