Just to follow this, /boot/initrd-2.4.19-16mdk.img did exist with the symlink to it.
After the kernel-2.4.19.17 update, /boot is only half-installed: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Apr 13 2001 boot.0300 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Oct 13 20:06 config -> config-2.4.19-16mdk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44145 Sep 20 12:52 config-2.4.19-16mdk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44512 Oct 24 16:03 config-2.4.19-17mdk drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 6 15:01 grub/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52404 Sep 27 20:42 initrd-2.4.19-16mdk.img lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23 Sep 28 18:35 initrd.img -> initrd-2.4.19-16mdk.img lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Oct 25 20:24 kernel.h -> /boot/kernel.h-2.4.19-16mdk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 441 Sep 27 20:46 kernel.h-2.4.19-16mdk -rw------- 1 root root 198144 Oct 25 20:23 map lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Oct 11 14:09 message -> message-graphic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 147089 Sep 27 20:42 message-graphic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 147089 Oct 11 14:09 message-text lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Sep 27 20:44 System.map -> System.map-2.4.19-16mdk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 490852 Sep 20 12:52 System.map-2.4.19-16mdk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 526408 Oct 24 16:03 System.map-2.4.19-17mdk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 256 Sep 6 18:37 us.klt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Oct 25 20:27 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.4.19-17mdk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 880346 Sep 20 12:52 vmlinuz-2.4.19-16mdk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 956704 Oct 24 16:03 vmlinuz-2.4.19-17mdk dare I fix the symlinks by hand? -- Gary Lawrence Murphy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - TeleDynamics Communications - blog: http://www.teledyn.com/mt/ - biz: http://teledyn.com/ - "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." (Picasso)