Hi, I am trying to run SC linux as a virtual pc within Windows XP. I downloaded virtual pc 2004 and installed SC Linux 4.2. Everything went fine with the installation but I can not boot the virtual machine. Once it starts booting the kernel I get various segmentation faults until the boot fails. I am using a Dell optiplex 745, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.39GHz, 2 GB or ram. Thanks, David Beauregard Here is the output from the virtual pc. Booting 'Scientific Linux (2.6.9-22.0.1.ELhugemem)' root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.0.1.ELhugemem ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet [linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x1569b6] initrd /initrd-2.6.9-22.0.1.ELhugemem.img [Linux-initrd @ 0x1fef0000, 0xefe5d bytes] Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. Red hat nash version 4.2.1.6 starting Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2 2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active INIT: version 2.85 booting INIT: Entering runlevel: 5 PIPESTATUS=([0]="0") PPID=1 PREVLEVEL=N PS4='+ ' PWD=/ RUNLEVEL=5 SELINUX_INIT=YES (i had disabled selinux on install) SHELL=/bin/bash SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:hashall:interactive-comments SHVL=1 TERM-linux UID=0 _= argv1=5 chack_runlevel () { [ -x "$1" ] || return 1; case "$1" in *.rpmsave | *.rpmorig | *.rpmnew | *~ | *.orig) return 1 ;; esac; return 0 } Starting sysstat: Calling the system activity data collector (sadc): /etc/rc5.d/S01sysstat: line 27: 572 Segmentation fault /usr/lib/sa/sadc -F -L - [FAILED] Starting readahead_early: [ OK ] /bin/unicode_start: line 15: 594 Segmentation fault kbd_mode -u /bin/unicode_start: line 40: 597 Segmentation fault setfont $1 Checking for new hardware/etc/rc5.d/S05kudzu: line 43: 599 Segmentation fault [ OK ] /etc/rc.d/S05kudzu: line 43: 613 Segmentation fault touch /var/lock/subsys/kudzu rm: cannot remove '/var/run/Xconfig': Read-only file system grep: /proc/cpuinfo: No such file or directory /etc/rc5.d/S08arptables_jf: line 30: [: : integer expression expected /etc/rc5.d/S08arptables_jf: line 33: [: : integer expression expected Starting pcmcia: [ OK ] Setting network parameters: [ OK ] Bringing up loopback interface: [FAILED] Determining IP infrmation for eth0... failed. [FAILED] touch: cannot touch '/var/lock/subsys/network': read-only file system Starting system logger: and this is where it hangs.