Hello, I mount my bootdisk (minix filesystem) with "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt" and copy my new compiled kernel to it. After that I do a "lilo -v -C /mnt/lilo.conf". All following commands which are floppy related (filesystem) fall into the D state. Load goes up by 100 for every D state process. ls /mnt umount /mnt sync SunWave1#cat /proc/version Linux version 2.4.5-ac16 (root@SunWave1) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Wed Jun 20 18:01:34 CEST 2001 SunWave1#ps aux root 1039 0.0 0.0 1404 64 pts/1 D 16:24 0:00 umount /mnt nuetzel 1108 0.1 0.1 1412 500 pts/5 D 16:28 0:00 sync Even "reboot" do nothing. I have to push the reset button. Luckily I have ReiserFS running and only some seconds to wait during bootup for replay the transaction logs. But mount/umount other disk partitions works as expected. Thanks, Dieter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/