I just built a new box to house an existing installation of Mandrake 6.0. I used a Tyan S1590S socket 7 motherboard with an AMD K6-2 450 processor. The memory is 2X128 Meg 10 ns DIMMs. Video is a Matrox G200 with 8 Meg or RAM and I have a Soundblaster 16 sound card. Ethernet is a generic RealTek 8139 10/100 card. Everything seemed to work fine. The kernel loaded and booted, sound came up, the ethernet card initialized, etc. But when the boot reached the script to start the systems loggers (syslog) it just hung up. I rebooted to single user mode, removed the script from the runlevel and tried again. This time, the boot stopped at starting Samba (smb). Once again, back to single user mode and remove the offending script from the runlevel. No the system will boot all the way but without logging or Samba. None of this makes any sence to me. The installation worked fine in the previous motherboard -- which was replaced because it crashed a lot when it got hot -- but after transferring the good components over to the new motherboard this annoying problem crops up. Any ideas? -- Stephen Carville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------- There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. Indira Gandhi