Hi, i have a Xeon on an Intel SE7520BD2 board. The motherboard has EFI -the "next generation BIOS...", however EFI has legacy support for the classical bootloaders and the MBRs. I have confirmed this by sometimes getting Grub errors, when editing the configuration file; that means that Grub is executed. I have installed Debian Etch 2.6.18-5-amd64 on /dev/sda or the first SCSI drive otherwise (on an Adaptec card) and runs OK. The only problem is that the booting output (the dmesg output) cannot be seen in the beginning -blank screen; i only see the last lines and the line asking for the username. I do not know why this happens. I then installed 2.6.18-5-vserver-amd64 -did "apt-get install vserver-utils linux-image-2.6.18-5 -vserver-amd64"- on the same drive, the grub configuration file (menu.lst) got automatically updated, i edited the conf file changing the default booting kernel to the vserver one and i rebooted the system. After rebooting i ended up waiting on a blank screen. I am still waiting... I suspect it has to do with missing modules, SCSI, vserver kernel constraints, etc. In which way is the default vserver kernel different than the non-vserver one? Will i have to create an image on my own? I am in deep water; any ideas appreciated! ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/