> > I'm not sure if this is related, but how are you doing the install? > Just doing a rpm -Uvh, or yum, apt, or which program? rpm -Uvh [a very long list] > No, I don't think changing the kernel make a difference. > What really does make a difference is if you change your grub.conf by > hand. Do you do that at any time? Or do any of the rpm's that you > install do that? Well, the kernel-smp rpm would do that. As I recall, the yum upgrade does change grub.conf as the kernel gets updated and I certainly tried running grub-install after the yum upgrade and all was well. John