I updated my system on 22 March with sources available on the mirrors at 11:30 PST and ended up with a system that wouldn't boot. It would get to the point that I chose FreeBSD using ntldr and it just stopped. The XP sytem used an older boot1 to boot FreeBSD. I could use the 6.0-Release CD fixit option to go back to the system update of 18 March. Since then, I have found that if I unload the 18 March kernel, load the 22 March kernel and boot, I get a btx dump. However, if you replace the old boot1 used by the ntldr with the one created by the new version of the OS, you can boot just fine. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://www.soyandina.com/ "I am Andean project". http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html