Hi, I plugged in a bad ide drive (well, it will be going bad soon, as it has some relocated blocks), but it has been working perfectly on all of the 2.4 kernels I've tried, until I just tried it with 2.6.0-test1 and 2.6.0-test2-mm1. I get an oops in acpi just before it calls start_kernel, but it goes away once I unplug the IDE drive (of course after powering down the system). I wasn't able to capture the oops yet, but I thought I'd post this to see if anyone has already seen this. Mike