>You need to enable smp in the kernel to get apic enabled. And use >maxcpus=1 if you only need one cpu running. >YH Thanks. That solved the IRQ problem and I can mount a USB key formatted ext2. I still can't get my IDE HDD to mount, though. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios at linuxbios.org http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios