I sometimes have some troubles in starting up my 2.4.14 and 2.4.17 kernels on my dell Inspiron 8100 (with bios A08), the computer freezes randomly during bootup, sometimes it's in configuring network, sometimes it's when staring X, usually it's somewhere else(!) Maybe the bios is buggy or is it apm...thank god for journaling...
Nikolaj
