I did this: [marshall@laserbeak boot]$ strings vmlinux-2.4.18-3 | grep redhat and got this: Linux version 2.4.18-3 (bhcompile@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)) #1 Thu Apr 18 07:32:41 EDT 2002 IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! pester mingo@redhat.com l8er -- Wesley Leonard <linuxbox@pacdemon.NOSPAM.org>