Max, I get the error of the kernel panic after getting it to boot my default client configuration. The Kernel error indicates it can't mount the root file system. So if I'm thinking correct it has a bad initrd.img file. I am thinking of possibly rebuilding it in the client bits directory. The second idea to that problem could be the wrong appended boot "root filesystem." as in root=/srv/diskless/FOO/root as it could actually be pointing to the server root and not the client root. example: kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 to:kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/srv/diskledss/FOO/root All of this was with and without the Patches applied. I could not to no avail get 'updateDiskless' patch to work. It would bail out with errors all the time. I will let know on Saturday with what I come up with as today is a workday -- ~/john OpenPGP Sig:BA91F079