Hello again: I have yet another problem; this one is for the Slackware gurus out there. I cobbled together an ancient P166 machine with three small drives: two IDE and one SCSI, the latter on an initio controller. I then installed Slackware 9, putting root on the first IDE drive and /usr onto the SCSI, and home and swap on the second IDE drive. I never did get it to boot from the hard drive, but now it no longer boots from floppy. (This machine has no CD-boot option.) I believe I did the original install with the "scsi" boot image (or it may have been scsi2 image, I don't recall.) I also created a boot floppy during the install, and I do have image 1 and image2 disks. Every time I try to boot it, it says "Loading vmlinuz ................ Ready" and then hangs. I've tried all possible boot disks: scsi, scsi2, adaptec, bare, and the one I created. They all do the same thing. Is there an option I should give the kernel at the boot: prompt? I even tried creating a Knoppix 3.2 floppy, and that wouldn't boot either. I tried the "failsafe" option on that floppy, but it complained that it couldn't find that version of the kernel - I supposed they didn't have room for it on there. Any suggestions? I'd like to get a Slack system up and running for testing. Thanks! Vaughn Treude Nakota, Software, Inc.