hi i just tried 2 boot up my debian linux partition and i got this. first of all it begins 2 load the first half of the kernel and then i get this error no matter if i boot from a floppy ar from my hard drive.HELP PLEASE Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer defernce at virtual address c00004e0 current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3=00101000 *pde=00102067 *pte=00000027 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 2048: [<0000C68d>] EFLAGS: 00010046 eax: 0000530 ebx:000001ff ecx:000080ff edx:0000ffff esi:00009fdc edi:00000000 ebp:0000040a esp:00009f20 ds:2050 es:0000 fs:0000 gs:0000 ss:0018 Process swapper(PID:1, process n:1, stackpage=00009000) stack: 0000c595, 00010000, 530....."and lot's of #'s" Call Trace: [<001732af>] [<00110018>] ....and more #'s Code: a0 e0 00 c3 e1 00 c3 a1 e2 00 c3 00 c8 02 00 00 57 56 33 Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2 and then it freezes and nothing happens after that? is there any way can salvage this? maybe if i set up a linux partition on a separate hard drive do u think i'll b able to access this one? thank u dOn Guelich