SORTED !!!! The system could not find a driver for hdc, my cdrom drive ...
modprobe -l said it could not find the modules.dep file, its search path was for an older kernel !!! - wierd I finaly twigged that the kernal modprobe was looking for was my old red hat kernel that used to be on this partition Bing !! light goes on ... LILO which calls debian still called the old vmlinuz, now wonder the poor system went wobbly Many, many thanks for all your help You got me from stumped to thinking .. PS have another problem now with XF86config-4, will post new query dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]